had,has and have + past participle

Question

Do had,has and have can only use with past participle instead of other tenses?

Cool Breeze · Accepted Answer

The past participle is not a tense. There are several ways to use have, has and had. Examples:

1. Present perfect: I have written a letter. He has written a letter.
2. Past perfect / pluperfect: I had written a letter.
3. Present tense or past tense: I have a car. He has a car. I had a car last year.

I have to do it. (= I must do it.) I had to do it yesterday.
I had him write it for me.

As you can see from the above examples, have, has and had can be followed by a past participle, a noun or a pronoun used as an object or an infinitive.

CB

Mister Micawber · Answer

AnonymousCan had,has and have be used only with past participle instead of other tenses?

'Have' is also a lexical verb: I have a headache.
As an auxiliary verb, it is used with the '-ed' form for simple perfect forms of the main verb: I have already eaten. She had found us.
As an auxiliary verb, it is used with the '-ing' form for continuous perfect forms of the main verb (but with the '-ed' form of 'be'): I have been studying.

19216801 · Answer

Hello Good Question and good answers
Nice topic

had,has and have + past participle

Top answer

Get the Weekly English Kit 📬

Related Questions