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BulbulTada Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Thank you, Mr CalifJim for an exhaustive explanation which is very helpful as always. I did have to go through these rules again and again and it got me started with grammar terms such as verb phrase, modal verb, infinitive and finite forms of a verb. But regarding my verb phrase,

have had gone

have - the first auxiliary verb with finite (present) form

had - the second non-finite (past participle) form of auxiliary verb 'have'

gone - non-finite form (past participle) form of the main verb 'go'

This verb phrase seems fine going by the rules you just stated. But my verb phrase is wrong only because of the rule you had earlier told that two past participles can't go in row after an auxiliary verb. Are there any more such rules for validating verb phrases?

  

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I forgot to mention that, unlike auxiliary be , auxiliaries have and do cannot appear in the perfect forms. ) These are OK: We have been waiting. ( be in the present perfect makes an auxiliary for 'waiting') We had been tricked.

— CalifJim

  • I forgot to mention that, unlike auxiliary be , auxiliaries have and do cannot appear in the perfect forms.
  • ) These are OK: We have been waiting.
  • ( be in the present perfect makes an auxiliary for 'waiting') We had been tricked.
  • ( be in the past perfect makes an auxiliary for 'tricked') (So in special cases, you CAN have two past participles in a row.
  • ) These are NOT OK: *They had done seen that movie.
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I forgot to mention that, unlike auxiliary be, auxiliaries have and do cannot appear in the perfect forms. (But when they are not auxiliaries, the perfect tenses are OK.)

These are OK:

We have been waiting.  (be in the present perfect makes an auxiliary for 'waiting')
We had been tricked.  (be in the past perfect makes an auxi
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