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Past Form Confirming Contradicting Statement Answering Question Participle

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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.'
word have
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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

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