Hello, welcome back my name is Emmelda and today I will make your life very simple. How?
Well today's lesson is for all those who are struggling to learn grammar rules, especially
the English grammar rules. So what do we have in store today? We will be learning about
the verb to have. Okay so we have the verb to have and let's learn how the verb to have
is used in various sentences, in various situations and it is used correctly and more precisely.
So the first thing that you have to note is the verb to have is an irregular verb. Okay
so this is your irregular verb. What do I mean irregular verb? Well do you notice these
three words, have, has, had. Well it's the same, it is different versions for the verb
have but when they change tenses, they change the endings, that's why it is an irregular
verb. Now what role does the verb to have play in English? Well it has two primary roles.
First is as a main verb. What do we mean by main verb? That means when you have the verb
to have in the sentence that is the only verb you have in the entire sentence, okay. That
itself becomes an action verb. For example, I have a TV. That means I possess a TV. So
the verb to have or to possess becomes the main verb. So when does the verb, to have
become the main verb? First either when you are talking about a possession. What all can
you possess? Or what all can you own? You own a TV may be or a fridge? Or a washing
machine? Or a car? Or anything. A book, pencil, pen. So anything that you can touch, hold,
grab or feel, you can own it. Am I correct? Yes, so you can say I, how to write, okay,
I have a TV. I have a TV. That means I own a TV. But how about things that you cannot
hold or you cannot touch? But you can feel, like your emotions. Now when I'm talking,
when I’m talking about simplified, that means I'm talking about the verb to have used
in different ways, right? So I want you to open your minds little more and just be a
little more creative. So now when you are talking about possession, we are talking about
possession of something that you cannot see. May be for example feeling. Feelings like,
I have a feeling that Amy and Sheldon are going to marry. Rings a bell, yeah I know
I love this show. So I have a feeling that Amy and Sheldon are going to marry. What else
can you possess? Hmm... How about a job? Well really? Yes of course. You do a work and you
do it quite often. Nobody else can do that job, right? So you say I
have a job. I have a job at probably Macey's. I have a job at Bloomingdale's. So I have
a job, okay. So you can have a possession of a tangible item. You can have a possession
of feelings or you can have a possession of something that you do. For example, well I
have a habit of reading books in the morning. So you got it? It could be job or habit or
anything that you do regularly. I think it's habit, yeah. I'm sorry my hand mind my hand
writing. I have a job or I have a habit. So that's how you can use the verb, to have as
a main verb. So what else can you use or how else can you use the verb, to have. Well the
verb, to have can be used as an auxiliary or a helping verb. Well why do I have a star
there? Okay it's very simple. What do I mean by a helping verb, that means I will use this
verb and another verb to show an effect or to make a sentence grammatically correct.
That means one particular verb will be insufficient or will not be complete when you are talking
about an action. Alright, let's say for example, I been to the US. Something's wrong there
or I be to US. Again, something's not right. The correct way of saying is, I have been
to the US. So when do we know that I need the word to have for another verb. Okay anytime,
you're talking about a perfect tense, you need to verb have. What's a perfect tense?
Well let me explain. Let's say yu are doing an action, okay but it has started not now,
may be sometime before or like probably a day ago or a year ago. Or a decade ago and
it went on for a period of time. That means you started in the month of January, you did
something and you have been doing it in February and March and April but you completed the
action, that's when you say perfect tense. Let me write it for you. Perfect tense. So
if you have a timeline, may be you started in Jan and you did all the way in March. So
use the verb to have here. That means you've been doing the action not once, not twice
but many times over this period. Okay the second thing that you have to notice. So this
becomes for your perfect tense. Second thing that you have to notice the next verb that
is going to come after the verb to have, for example I have been becomes a past participle.
What is participle? Oh my god. Relax, it means the action has been completed. It's done,
it's over, and you can't do it again. So it comes with past. So the verb to have will
come with another verb which is a past participle form. For example, been, done or seen or any
other verb that is already verb that has already been finished and you're not going to do it
again right? Let's make it a sentence. I have been. I have been watching you. That’s so
creepy. Okay so I have been watching you or I have done doing the dishes or I have done
washing the dishes. I have done it. I have done washing the dishes or I have seen it.
So that means if you are watching a movie. So I have seen the movie or I have seen the
clip. It means that particular clip was not for a fraction of a second. It was probably
you know 5 seconds or an hour. So you didn't watch like and then you closed no right? You
watched it throughout. So you say I have seen the movie, I have seen the video clip. So
that's how you use the verb, to have and as an auxiliary or helping verb. Now that we
have talked so much about main and helping verb. I have to come back to the first topic.
Irregular verb. What do you mean by irregular verb? Well let's take a look at an example.
Okay first thing that you want to know is, the word to have will be used with pronouns.
Okay so pronouns such as please bear with me. Interruption is regretted, okay. Pronoun
as I, we, it and they. Okay so I, we, it, they will have the verb to have. I have, we
have, not it, they have. Okay so I, we, they have. However, when you are talking about
a second person. For example, she, he or a name of a person or a proper noun. Let's say
John. So here you will use has. Okay so this becomes have for you and this becomes has,
okay. He has, she has and John has. Well once you are done with this, obviously you want
to talk about the past. Well, everything else is like had. So whether it is I or he or she
or it or whatever it automatically becomes had when you talk about past tense or any
past action. So you say or I will say i had a TV when I was a child that means I owned
a TV when I was a child.
Otherwise if I still have the TV with me, I say I have the TV still with me, okay. So
that's how simple the verb to have, has, had is in English. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope
you learnt something new. Well it's quite obvious you may have some doubts. Well do
not worry; I'm here to your help. Maybe you wanna post your comments or your questions
or any doubts in the comments section and I'll be more than grateful to answer your
queries, okay.
I will be back in a very short while until then, see you, good bye, ciao.