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15 There's no special magic with " had had ", they don't really go together as a pair anymore than " had wanted " go together. So don't worry so much about how to use " had had " as a unit of grammar, they will come together naturally when you want to express the verb ' to have ' in the past perfect.
For example, what is the difference between the following two sentences: I had a bad day I had had a bad day
It is used to describe experiences one has had in the past (and that hence influence the experience with which you speak today), changes over time, uncompleted actions, and things that have happened more than once. By the way, abuse as a countable noun in terms of insult is unusual.
I have come across a few sentences that contain "have had". I would like to know in what kind of situations we should use this combination.
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The second one doesn't technically make it clear that you had eaten the chocolates before dinner, but then again it's really the only possible meaning in that context so the two sentences don't really have much difference in meaning.
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You have to use "had had" if something has been done long back, not recently. But if something has been done recently, then you can use "have had" or "has had" depending on the pronoun.
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1 He'd better In colloquial speech, the auxiliary verbs would and had are contracted to ’d, which can be confusing for learners of English and hence explains the OP's perplexity. How do we know whether the ’d in “ He'd live in Scotland if he had the choice ” is the contracted form of would or had? In this case, it has to be would i.e.
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