| query | You use h___ when you are confirming or contradicting a statement containing 'have', 'has', or 'had', or answering a question.You use have when you are confirming or contradicting a statement containing 'have', 'has', or 'had', or answering a question. 'Have you been to York before?'—'Yes we have.' |
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| word | have |
| full-definition | verb You use the forms have and has with a past participle to form the present perfect tense of verbs . Alex has already gone. I've just seen a play that I can highly recommend. My term hasn't finished yet. What have you found so far? This is something which you might have forgotten. Frankie hasn't been feeling well for a long time. You use the form had with a past participle to form the past perfect tense of verbs. When I met her, she had just returned from a job interview. By Friday at 5:30 p.m., I still hadn't heard from Lund. Miss Windham said she had spoken to them over the weekend. Have is used in question tags . You haven't sent her away, have you? It's happened, hasn't it? They hadn't invented sequencers back in those days, had they? You use have when you are confirming or contradicting a statement containing 'have', 'has', or 'had', or answering a question. 'Have you been to York before?'—'Yes we have.' The form having with a past participle can be used to introduce a clause in which you mention an action which had already happened before another action began . He arrived in San Francisco, having left New Jersey on January 19th. Having been told by his doctor that he was overweight, he's eating all the fibre and fruit he can. |
| inflections | hashavinghad |
| cefr-level | A2 |
Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:a2
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