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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Have/has

How do you determine if a sentence requires have/has?
  

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If the subject is 3rd person singular ( he, she, it, the Eiffel Tower, my brother , etc), then use 'has'; otherwise, use 'have'.

  • If the subject is 3rd person singular ( he, she, it, the Eiffel Tower, my brother , etc), then use 'has'; otherwise, use 'have'.
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If the subject is 3rd person singular (he, she, it, the Eiffel Tower, my brother, etc), then use 'has'; otherwise, use 'have'.
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HI,

Let's start with "has"

Has is used with the third person singular. For example:

'She has a great personality.'
'He has a new haircut.'
'The washing machine has a leak in it'.
'It has a hole near the door.'

Coming up to "have"

Have is used with some pronouns and plural nouns:

'I have
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Thanks!

New problem, How do you determine if a sentence requires have/has or had?
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Use had for the past.

I had a car last year, but now I don't have a car anymore.

CJ
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suppose I'm writing an essay about my memorable journey.
In this essay do I write sentences with had only, and there won't be any have/has.
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Most of them may well be past tense forms, but no narrative of any considerable length can limit itself to a single verb form.

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