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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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