BulbulTada
I am tired today because I have had to go shopping this morning.
Oops, I had taken the mention of time period to be 'today' rather than 'this morning'! If you hadn't instructed that this is valid only during morning, I would have said this during any period of the day, 'today'! But I see it now that the mention of time in this sentence is 'this morning' and not 'today'.
BulbulTada
I have had gone shopping!
Thank you for 'nicely telling me off'! I did remember the rule you had told me that 'two past participles won't ever go together like that', but it seems I still hadn't taken that in. But I am going to watch out for my 'have had' from now on and break the habit. I think with a sentence like, 'I had gone shopping.', the 'had gone' is possible because that 'had', maybe, is not a past participle at all, but I think something other than the main verb and could be called a 'modal or auxiliary verb'?
CalifJimIt's been a pleasant morning. I've already gone shopping, too.
This is what I had meant. And since you said, I 'made the tense up', my tense of 'two past participles together' musn't possibly mean something other!
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', the 'had gone' is possible because that 'had', maybe, is not a past participle at all, but I think something other than the main verb and could be called a 'modal or auxiliary verb'? The following explanation may help, but you may have to read it several times and study it fairly closely. A verb or a series of verbs is a verb phrase.
- ', the 'had gone' is possible because that 'had', maybe, is not a past participle at all, but I think something other than the main verb and could be called a 'modal or auxiliary verb'?
- The following explanation may help, but you may have to read it several times and study it fairly closely.
- A verb or a series of verbs is a verb phrase.
- The last verb in a verb phrase is always the main verb, the verb that carries the meaning.
- gave ; was seen ; had gone ; could have heard ; has been waiting All the other verbs in the verb phrase (if any) are auxiliary verbs.
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BulbulTada I think with a sentence like, 'I had gone shopping.', the 'had gone' is possible because that 'had', maybe, is not a past participle at all, but I think something other than the main verb and could be called a 'modal or auxiliary verb'?
The following explanation may help, but you may have to read it several times and study it fairly closely.
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