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anonymous Can you use " had had " in a sentence ? Yes. It's the past perfect tense of "to have".
- anonymous Can you use " had had " in a sentence ?
- Yes.
- It's the past perfect tense of "to have".
- CJ
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anonymousCan you use "had had" in a sentence?
Yes. It's the past perfect tense of "to have".
CJ
0For example:
I have had a bad day. (Present perfect tense of "to have")
I had had a bad day. (Past perfect tense of "to have")
I have had enough of his bad behavior. (Pres. perf.)
I had had enough of his bad behavior. (Past perf.)
0"had had " is a past perfect construction which some suggest avoiding if the context is clear enough.
We've learned that if we have to describe two past events, we must to use past perfect to describe the chronological order of the events. For example: "I had traveled many times to Europe before I got married last year". In this sentence, the context is clear since "before" is used. S
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