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hi everybody my name is alicia in this

lesson i’m going to talk about the

differences between

have and had i’m going to look at three

very common ways that we use these words

let’s get started okay the first way

that we use these words

is to express ownership so ownership

this means

when we have like an item there’s

something that belongs to us

or when we want to talk about like

personalities or

personal characteristics when we want to

talk about

owning that or something belonging to us

we use have or past tense had to do that

so to make a basic ownership expression

with this verb

we use have plus our noun phrase

so for example marker is a noun phrase a

marker so

i have a marker it’s a very simple

ownership

expression this is present tense

have when the subject of the sentence is

he

she or it we change the verb

have to has she has a marker

he has a marker so keep in mind

the subject of your sentence will change

the way that you have to say the verb or

spell the verb

so we follow it with a noun phrase

when we want to make a past tense

statement

we change have to had

this is true if the subject is she he it

anything we use had for past

tense ownership statements so i

had a red marker now i have

a blue marker for example i had in the

past

now i have present tense so we use

had and have to express past and

present ownership of things and

characteristics

some more examples first i have

a cookie have present tense this shows

us right now the speaker

the speaker has a cookie the speaker has

a cookie

i have a cookie another one past tense

here

i had a dog when i was a kid

so here i had a dog when

when i was a kid this is my point in

time or my period

of time this was the the time in which i

had

a dog past tense here are some examples

where the subject is

he and she he has

a lot of money he has a lot of money

we use has because the subject is he

he has a lot of money finally she

has a lot of responsibilities

she has a lot of responsibilities

again the subject is she so we use

has instead of have this is only

for the present tense she has a lot of

responsibilities

so this is the first use of have and

had to express ownership let’s move on

to

point number two for this lesson point

number two

we use have and had to make the perfect

tenses so we use perfect tense we can

use

present perfect tense past perfect tense

future perfect tense

to talk about actions that started in

the past and

continued until a certain point in time

so when we make present perfect tense

sentences we use have organ has it

follows the same rule as over here

if the subject is she he or it we use

has

so we use have or has but we

follow it with the past participle

form of a verb this is a special form of

each verb

that we attach to this verb have or has

so this is to make the present perfect

tense

when we make the past perfect tense

however we use

had plus the past participle form of the

verb

so again there’s only one word here

there’s no

change if the subject changes so past

perfect

had present perfect have or has

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let’s look at some examples though of

how we use these

to make our statements in perfect tenses

first i have studied english

for three years i have studied english

for three years

so have is used here

before studied studied

is the past participle form of the verb

study

i have studied english in this case for

three years the speaker includes a

length of time

i have studied english for three years

let’s change the subject of the sentence

she has been waiting

for an hour she has been

waiting for an hour so here we’re

focusing on a continuing action

but we change have to has because the

subject

is she we use bin because

bin is the past participle form of the

verb

be so not she has be she has

been waiting she has been waiting

so this is again a present perfect

tense expression here we’re using it

with the continuous form or the

progressive form

now let’s take a look at some past

perfect examples

i had just arrived home

when the phone rang i had just arrived

home when the phone rang

here you’ll notice i included just so i

want to show something happened

very quickly after this thing

or rather i want to show that something

happened very quickly

like back to back so one thing happened

and then another thing happened

i had just arrived home when the phone

rang so

had is used here because this is a past

situation so i just arrived home

i had just arrived home when the phone

rang

so in the moment after that

very quickly so i use just

before the past participle verb

arrived arrived so arrived is the past

participle form of the verb arrive i can

use

just to modify that so another example

we had been working all night

when we got the news that the project

was cancelled we had been working all

night when we got the news that the

project was cancelled

again had comes before my past

participle verb

be becomes bin and i’m using another

progressive example an ing example

you’ll also notice that with past

perfect

we tend to use this when we’re telling

stories in a sequence

so past perfect thing the thing that

happened far far far in the past we use

past perfect tense and then we use

simple past tense

we see this in these two examples this

happened first

had just arrived home far in the past

when the phone rang so this is my

simple past tense statement just arrived

home phone rang

so we understand the sequence of events

there by using

past perfect simple past same thing here

we had been working all night continuing

to work we’ve been working all night

when we got the news we got

simple past tense we got the news that

the project was cancelled

so we use this uh these two past forms

together

to tell stories in sequence okay so

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okay so let’s move on to our third use

of these words for this lesson we use

have

and had to talk about responsibilities

this is a very

common use of these words when we talk

about present tense responsibilities

we use have or has again for

he she and its subjects plus

two plus a present tense verb

of course we can change this with use of

don’t we can make it a negative

don’t have to doesn’t have to and so on

but making a positive sentence for the

purposes of this lesson

is done in this way same thing with had

when we’re making a past tense

responsibility expression

we use had plus to plus the present

tense verb so this had is the only

change

changes from half in present tense so

let’s look at some examples

first i have to go to the bank

i have to go to the bank half 2

plus present tense verb go is my present

tense verb i have to go to the bank

responsibility statement if my subject

is he she or it

i need to change my verb to has she

has to leave the office leave is my

simple present tense verb i’ve connected

it with two she has to leave the office

past tense examples we had to buy

new shoes we had to buy new shoes so we

as the subject

had shows it’s a past tense expression

to connects to by my present

tense verb we had to buy new shoes

finally he had to find a new job

so again my subject is he but there’s no

change to the verb

in past tense he had to find a new

job so had to present tense verb is

fine he had to find a new job

so we can use have and had and has

to talk about explaining our

responsibilities

so these are three ways that you can use

have and had and has as well so i hope

that they help you

in understanding how these words are

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