Irregular verb
have
/hæv/
- Base
- have
- Past simple
- had
- Past participle
- had
Usage
had is the same in the simple past and the participle; in have had, the first have is the auxiliary and the second is the main verb.
Meaning
- to own, hold, or experience something
Example
We had a wonderful holiday.
She had a headache all afternoon.
They have had this car for ten years.
Teaching note
Have is both a main verb meaning possess or experience and an auxiliary that combines with a past participle to form perfect tenses.
Common mistake
In ‘She has went home’, has is correct but the following verb is not: an auxiliary does not license a simple-past form.
Correction: Use ‘She went home’ without the auxiliary, or ‘She has gone home’ with has followed by the participle.