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Salam and Hi (again..). Can anyone explain to me why is such term exist? I mean, I some times come across these words in english novels. When can we actually use it? Thanks in advance..
*You may think you have had it rough..
*I have had......

Nugso · Accepted Answer

Hello.

Back in 1995, I have had English lessons.( That means you can still speak English)

I had English lessons.( We don't know whether you can still speak English)

Let's wait for an expert to explain it clearer and to correct me.

Enoon · Answer

"Salaam" is an English word, by the way, spelled thus.

The two dictionaries I looked at before I gave up don't show this usage, as far as I can tell. That's the dummy "it", and we have it rough when we experience a time of hardship, often our whole lives. We can also have it good, or we can have it made, which means that we have everything we need and life is easy.

Fivejedjon · Answer

You can have it easy/soft/rough/tough/ if you have had an easy/soft/rough/tough time - often, as enoon suggested, a whole lifetime. I don't think we have a dummy 'it' here; I think the pronoun refers to 'life' or 'time'

In the original sentence, the verb is in the present perfect.

AlpheccaStars · Answer

Do you recognize these verb forms
1) I have a book.
2) He has finished his homework.
3) When I arrived, they weren't there. They had gone to lunch

#1 is the use of have as a main verb. I have two dollars. I had three dollars yesterday and spent one.

#2 is different. Have is an auxiliary verb. It is used to make the perfect tenses. (Present, past, future, continuous, passive and active). The perfect tenses are have (whatever tense) + past participle of the main verb.

#3 is the past perfect tense of the verb go. It has the past tense of the auxiliary verb have=had, and the past participle of the main verb, go = gone.

Now suppose you want to make the perfect tenses of the main verb have? How do you do that?

I have a car, but it is not my first car. When I was 18, I had a Ford. When I was 21, I had a Buick. When I think in the past, and count all my cars, I can tell you that I have had six cars in my life.

CalifJim · Answer

BrilliantWriterI have had

Simple tenses:

I take, you take, we take, they take, he takes, she takes
I have, you have, we have, they have, he has, she has

I took, you took, we took, they took, he took, she took
I had, you had, we had, they had, he had, she had

Perfect tenses: (have + past participle)

I have taken, you have taken, we have taken, they have taken, he has taken, she has taken
I have had, you have had, we have had, they have had, he has had, she has had

I had taken, you had taken, we had taken, they had taken, he had taken, she had taken
I had had, you had had, we had had, they had had, he had had, she had had

CJ

Shupkay · Answer

You would say have had to describe something that took place in an indefinite time in the past, as in I have had it rough.

Anonymous · Answer

Hi, great explanation; thanks

but why can't it be just 'I had six cars'?

Mister Micawber · Answer

Anonymouswhy can't it be just 'I had six cars'?

It could be, but we generally use present perfect to describe a 'life experience'.

Whatchadoin · Answer

I've had six cars.
I have six cars.

Can the first on mean that I still have six cars?

AlpheccaStars · Answer

whatchadoinI've had six cars.

Without any other context, I would assume that five are history.
In the US, I might assume that he has the sixth car, because it is nearly impossible to survive on public transportation.

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