2021年5月24日 · He had had some faith. This is the past perfect tense. All (that faith) had had no effect. This is also the past perfect tense. When you insert the first sentence as a relative …

2018年2月6日 · Whether Clifford Beers would have made a name for himself had he not become mentally ill in 1900, or, given that, had he afterwards buried his psychiatric history and pursued …

2025年1月11日 · "He had to do it" is a statement of belief that the subject ("he") is or was obligated to commence on some action. It can precede the attempt to "do it" or proceed it. …

2022年2月15日 · It's unlikely that anyone would say I had lost my keys without any other information, because the past perfect implies that the keys are no longer missing. He might …

2017年3月28日 · you had worked hard - past perfect: backshifted for a hypothetical situation. Plug that into the sentence, and you get: If you had worked hard, you would not have had to suffer …

2017年3月12日 · "Had" by itself is the past tense, while "Has had" is the present perfect, meaning it began in the past and continues in the present. He had a gun. This means he had a gun in …

2016年1月2日 · He does like champagne! She did look happy! In the emphatic sentences we see the dummy auxiliary DO being used so that it can take stress. The original Poster's example. I …

2022年2月28日 · He has had a biscuit. This is a perfect tense, and it uses the past participle "had". Now it is a coincidence that the past tense form of "have" is also "had"! (In most …

2021年4月29日 · If you begin with "had taken", then it makes sense to continue in a similar tense. Also, mainly because the state of being governor was an extended period of time (as opposed …

Typically we use the past simple (saw) for events in the past and the past perfect (had seen) for events further in the past. For example, you could say: For example, you could say: I had seen …