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7. We've is simply a contraction of we have. All your examples are correct grammatically, it's just that some sound better than others. Share. Improve this answer. Follow. answered Mar 11, 2011 at 19:28. The English Chicken. 8,480 20 69 99.
Feb 10, 2020 · 111. "Have had" is using the verb have in the present perfect tense. Consider the present tense sentence: I have a lot of homework. This means that I have a lot of homework now. On the other hand, we use the present perfect tense to describe an event from the past that has some connection to the present. Compare the following two sentences: I ...
May 9, 2018 · iv I have just rented a car. [recent past] Both the preterite and the present perfect relate two time domains as one anterior to (i.e. before) the other. The one that's further in the past is called the 'time referred to', T r. The other is called the 'time of orientation', T O. T O sometimes coincides with 'now' (in which case we say it is ...
Oct 22, 2013 · It is used in two primary ways: to assert that the statement explicitly true: "I HAVE had my lunch, mother!"; and also when followed by further limiting or conditioning statements: "I HAVE had the guinea fowl at this restaurant, but I prefer their duck". 1) I think you mean "I could swear", not "would" - "would" seems unnatural to me.
We are having our cousins to stay next week. But for most uses of have we don't use the progressive. In British English. We're having a problem. is possible, but means something like we are experiencing a problem, rather than the neutral there is a problem: it carries a sense that we are somehow personally involved in or affected by the problem.
Sep 19, 2019 · 2. Short answer: 1 is common in American English; 2 is common in British English; 3 is uncommon in British and American English; 4 is common in British and American English. Tag questions (American English), or question tags (British English) are often taught as simple rules, but their use is actually rather complicated.
*We have that John is an idiot. *We have John is an idiot. Neither of the latter two constructions would be admissible in ordinary English, and I can find no evidence in Google books that they ever were admissible (although the middle one sounds marginally better to me, which means that if you had to choose one of these two, I would recommend ...
May 22, 2017 · The past participle is run. I have run into resistance every time I’ve tried to solve the problem. She has run from her responsibilities. Regarding the problem that arises when forming the past participle, some people mistakenly use the past tense ran instead of the correct past participle run, as in I have ran into resistance every time I ...
Believe it or not, there actually is a slight difference between the two: He can have the hammer. (He has the necessary permission to possess the hammer.) Some people consider this wrong and that the correct word is may, but in contemporary English, using can have signifies permission over ability, because the cases where someone is unable to ...
When we use the word already with the present perfect, we are usually referring to a completed action (which has present relevance): I have already cooked dinner. She has gone already. But knowing cannot be regarded as a completed action in the same sense. It denotes a present or past state. So you cannot say:
