Hi friends, welcome to a new lesson. Well, have you tried troubling someone and annoying
someone to the hilt and they turn around and tell you, “Enough! I've had it.” Yes you
may have heard it. Or probably when your sibling or your spouse is back from work and they
tell you, “I've had a very tough day today.” Okay and you wondering like why do you need
to say, ‘I have had’ why can't you just simply say, ‘I had’ yeah? So well one
of the most common queries that has come up in the recent times and that is, ‘have’,
‘had’. What is ‘have’, ‘had’ and when do we use it? Okay so it's not really
difficult but first clear the misconception that ‘have ‘and ‘had’ cannot be used
together. Yes they can and make complete sense to a sentence when they are used together,
okay? Now before we get on to examples I would like to tell you how do you get ‘have’,
‘had’ in a sentence. Okay so since a lot of people and you know who learn English to
ask me this question that where does ‘have’, ‘had’ come and how can you have ‘have’,
‘had’ together? Well now I'll tell you how you can. Now let's take example of a verb
‘I eat’ okay? So I eat eggs for breakfast every morning, okay ‘I eat’. Now I can
use the simple verb eat or I can replace it by saying I have eggs for breakfast, right?
So more often than not we use have. I have eggs and milk or I have a fruit platter for
breakfast, yeah? So I'm using have in place of eat fair enough? So have I eat I have both
are in the simple present tense. Now if I say I am eating that means my action is on
right now. So I'm eating and I get a call and my friend asks me, “What are you doing?”
I say “I’m eating my breakfast, I'll call you, okay?” Same thing instead of eating
I'm using having okay so I'll say, “I am having my breakfast.” Okay now this brings
us to a very important rule of ‘have’, ‘have’ actually means to possess, okay?
So I have a marker here with me I possess it and that is the original meaning of ‘have’.
When you talk about ‘have’ in its original meaning that means to possess it never takes
the ‘ing’ form. So even right now I have this marker in my hand. I cannot say I am
having this marker, no! Or I'm having two houses in the city, no! So remember as a possession,
to show possession or that you own it never goes in the ‘ing’ form. So if you have
been using ‘have’ the ‘ing’ form that shows possession, stop using it. I will tell
you what to use when we get there but if you are replacing ‘have’ okay instead of eat
good to go you can use it as ‘ing’. So I'm having my lunch because it is replacing
eat okay fair enough? I cannot tell you I'm having an apple in my bag, no! I have an apple
because I possess it. But if I'm munching on it and chewing it right now, I'm having
an apple, fair enough, because I'm replacing ‘eat’. Got this rule? As a possession
no ‘ing’. Eating, having instead of eating fair enough you can use it, okay? Now coming
back, ‘I eat’ ‘I have’ simple present tense. ‘I am eating’, ‘I am having’
present continuous tense. What did I do? I put the verb in ‘ing’ and I had a supporting
verb to make it a simple continuous present tense, okay? Now if I want to tell you I am
done eating, I have finished, what I'll do is I okay if you remember verb has three forms,
‘present’, ‘past’ and ‘past participle’ you put it in the past participial like this
got it? But you also use have because if you do not use a supporting verb you will not
know which tenses it is. Is it in the present perfect, past perfect, future perfect, right?
So eat became eaten verb in the third form, okay? And you had a supporting verb. I'm doing
exactly the same thing over here. I put eat in the third form, I'm going to put have in
the third form, what is the third form? ‘Have’, ‘had’, ‘had’, okay? Now if I leave
it at this, it becomes a simple past tense, I had an apple. But I want to keep it in the
present perfect tense like I have done here, the same funda, you’re going to add and
this is how you derive at ‘have’, ‘had’ okay? So ‘have’, ‘had’ is nothing
but the present perfect tense, you put a verb in the third form, you do exactly the same
thing you put a verb in the past participle but you add ‘have’ to make it a present
perfect tense. So ‘a’ what we have learnt today is, how does ‘have’, ‘had’ take
birth and this is how it you derive it, okay? So I just took help of another verb to show
you if this is exactly the same process and that is how ‘have’, ‘had’ is logically
correct in English. So this makes it your present perfect tense, clear? ‘Had’ is
the main verb, verb in the past participle form with the supporting verb to keep it in
the present tense, okay? And of course this varies she, with she it becomes has had. So
you may have She/he, has had okay? So now we very clear
about how we derive and have had and how and why they can come together so I hope this
part of your confusion is gone now let's look at how do we use it in our daily conversation.
Okay so here I have a sentence that says she has had okay because it's she third-person
you use has don't forget this rule we've learned it in many lessons “She has had a headache
since yesterday.” Now think of it like this the action started yesterday what action the
headache okay it's like it's been my head is okay burdened with pain since yesterday
and till today I have a headache. Ideally speaking it should be taking the present perfect
continuous as in she has been having a headache, right? That is the way it is like I have been
living in London for ten years because ten years ago I came and I'm still living so the
action started in the past it is still continuing right? But like I told you the rule for have
is, it does not take an ing form when you talk about possession so I cannot put it in
the ing form okay so but if I say she has a headache since yesterday it is incorrect
you want to show longevity of the action you want to show that the action has been continuing
since a point of time in the past so you need to use the correct tense with the correct
verb. So what I do is I can't keep it in a simple present tense because it is not correct
to say it's like, I live in Mumbai, I live in London say for 10 years it doesn't make
sense I have been living right? So we cannot use ing we cannot take the present perfect
continuous so we pass it on to the present perfect tense and then you say she has had
a headache since yesterday, so ‘a’ we use it when you want to say something that
you have wrongly been having from a point of time in the past till date okay but because
you cannot show possession in ing you use a present perfect tense she has had a headache
since yesterday similar example we have had this car for four years now I bought this
car four years ago I have been possessing it but I cannot say we have been having why
because have as a verb opposition never and I mean never goes in the ing so we have had
this car for four years. So used in place of present perfect continuous tense okay?
So we've done it because it's a possession you cannot use ing. Now let's see how to use
as a present perfect tense I've had three off this week. This week is still on okay,
it's the present time frame this week is still on I've used a contraction here it's I have
had so when you say you say I've, I've had three offs this week present ok it's the present
time period is still on generally people would say I had three offs this week, incorrect.
Because the week the time frame is still on and you have already got three offs you say
I have had three offs this week okay and the next one is they've had four meetings this
month. Now whatever month you are in, say for example I am in June or July okay I’m
in month of July, in July this month is still on the month is not yet completed it is a
present time frame and so but, but my four meetings are done, action completed, the present
time frame is still on, you use a present perfect tense and you say they have had four
meetings this month and that is how have had is used and yes friends so when you hear,
people use have had don't kind of got confused or when you hear people use has had don't
kind of get confused and say but how can two haves or has had or have had come together
yes they can and this how you derive it. I'm sure you have another question in your mind
and that is when do we use ‘had’ ‘had’ well we will come to ‘had’ ‘had’ later
right now let's deal with have had let's practice it and I'm sure you understood this you now
know when to use it. As a quick rule remember have as a verb a possession can never go in
‘ing’ if you need to show continuity of the action use the present perfect tense use
have had or has had respectively and of course when you want to talk about the present time
umm, time frame or the time period is still on but the action is completed it's the proper
present perfect tense go ahead and use have had and has had well friends so this brings
me to the end of this lesson I hope you enjoyed watching it I'll be back soon with a new lesson
till then take care and bye.