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Omar Ahmed Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Correct or not?

I saw the following sentence in a dictionary: She’d had to call her parents by ten o’clock.

Is it correct to say "I had had to ....."?

  

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"? In the right context, yes. "had had" often causes confusion, but it is simply the past perfect tense of the verb "have", and it works like any other past perfect.

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  • In the right context, yes.
  • "had had" often causes confusion, but it is simply the past perfect tense of the verb "have", and it works like any other past perfect.
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Omar AhmedIs it correct to say "I had had to ....."?

In the right context, yes. "had had" often causes confusion, but it is simply the past perfect tense of the verb "have", and it works like any other past perfect.

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