Both events happened in the past—agreeing to wait in the pumpkin patch and realizing that there was no Great Pumpkin—but the agreeing happened even before the realizing, so we have to use the past perfect tense for the agreeing part and the regular past tense for the realizing part.
Everything Language and Grammar. Skip to content. Here are some other examples: The telephone rang after we had left the house. Both the phone ringing and the leaving occurred in the past, but one occurred even more in the past than the other. He had been to Paris , so I asked him whether I could get by without learning French. By the time Lucy woke up, Linus had fallen asleep in the pumpkin patch. Testing now. Simple Present: They cook. Present Perfect: They have cooked.
He does love to help students outside of class. We need to write it out completely to analyze it:. Sorry, but sometimes today the e-mail system of this Web site is acting up on me. I regret that some sentences have ended up typed twice. It was a malfunction. Am I inferring correctly?
If so, can you give an example of when that might not be clear? Could the differences in meaning between those 2 not be obvious? So, in other words, the most explicit answer to the original question of when to use has vs. You see, english is not my mother-tongue so learning grammars are always kinda hard for me.
He, she, it are singular so we use has. He — has she — has it — has Proper name — has Title - has Examples: - He has a big car. Past tense simple Past tense is used to describe a completed action. So when a sentence has I, you, we, they, he, she, it, proper name and title, we use had.
I — had we — had they — had he — had she — had it — had Proper name — had Title — had Examples: - I had my food. The above enlightenments must have cleared your confusion. Check your knowledge with the below tests: 1. Answers: 1. Have 2. Has 3. Had 4. Martha Washington understood my signs, and I seldom had any difficulty in making her do just as I wished.
I too had woven a kind of basket of a delicate texture, but I had not made it worth any one's while to buy them. He stood at the back, and, though he had heard hardly anything, understood everything in his own way. Alex had destroyed it then with suspicion and accusations. If Alex knew that, he gave no indication - and she had no intention of telling him.
In fact, at times she had been almost brutally clear that she was no longer interested in him. Thanks to Alex, that chore had been turned into a simple twist of a knob. Katie said that was because Carmen had been raised poor and had become frugal. As busy as she was, time had to be set aside for play with Destiny.
Carmen glanced quickly outside to see if the threatening snow had arrived. The unknown can be worse than reality, and she had no idea what to expect on the flight. I just didn't see any point in spending money on new clothes when my old ones still had a lot of wear in them. As always, he had been there when she needed him.
Actually, she hadn't thought how it looked to others - and there had never been any doubt in her mind that she was fortunate to have Alex. Jonathan and Destiny's room had two twin beds in it, as well as a television. Would it have been better if I had fallen off and broken my neck? Ultimately it had cost them a child and her ability to have more.
Five years ago that day she had met Alex. He had been unusually quiet and solemn lately. Her first thought was that it was a puppy someone had dropped off. No wonder he had been so solemn lately. I had hoped that you would resolve your problem, but it seems to have no end. The moment had made him acutely aware of the instinct to replicate. It was a moment that lay in her stomach like a week-long hunger, regardless of the fact that they had been gone only minutes.
Len had regained his composure. How had he managed to drive all the frightened little animals into this place of safety? Then he ordered his treasurer to pay the poet five hundred pieces of gold; for, indeed, the poem which he had recited was wonderfully fine.
In any event, King Croesus had it in his mind to wage war against the Persians, so he asked the oracle: "Should I attack the Persians? But during the first nineteen months of my life I had caught glimpses of broad, green fields, a luminous sky, trees and flowers which the darkness that followed could not wholly blot out.
Standing before the mirror, as I had seen others do, I anointed mine head with oil and covered my face thickly with powder. Inspired, perhaps, by Master Gobbler's success, we carried off to the woodpile a cake which the cook had just frosted, and ate every bit of it. The Indians had advanced so far as to regulate the effect of the wind by a mat suspended over the hole in the roof and moved by a string. But scarcely had Pierre uttered these words before he was attacked from three sides.
Many voices shouted and talked at the same time, so that Count Rostov had not time to signify his approval of them all, and the group increased, dispersed, re-formed, and then moved with a hum of talk into the largest hall and to the big table.
Glinka, the editor of the Russian Messenger, who was recognized cries of "author! This general, hating Barclay, rode to visit a friend of his own, a corps commander, and, having spent the day with him, returned to Barclay and condemned, as unsuitable from every point of view, the battleground he had not seen. The day after his son had left, Prince Nicholas sent for Princess Mary to come to his study. Alex was supposed to be sterile, but they had been wrong about that. Right or wrong, the decision had been made.
To be fair, his father hadn't made things any better by offering money to Alex and not his sister. Assured that it had not, she turned back to him.
For one terrifying moment the enormity of what they had done brought her close to panic. Maybe she would have if she hadn't been shoving it from her mind. In fact, she had made a different decision about it so many times that his head must be spinning. It wouldn't have been so much fun for him if she had reacted the way he did when she told him she was pregnant. But then, he had reason - in his head - to believe it wasn't his. He picked up the newspaper she had set out for him and started to read.
Why hadn't it occurred to her that Jonathan might feel he was being replaced? He had indicated enough times that he would like to see her in something a little more feminine and fashionable.
Had anyone actually told her that or had she merely assumed it? He had seemed amused by her modesty in the past, and yet it had obviously troubled him. When they finally got on the plane, she and Jonathan had a window seat - Jonathan in front of her.
Felipa looked to be in her early twenties and had a sunshine smile that made Carmen feel welcome. Alex had been hiding more than a father.
Felipa didn't seem to notice anything unusual in his attitude, so maybe he had always treated them that way. She gazed out the window as if she hadn't noticed anything unusual.
Alex had directed the little he said to her only. Carmen refrained from looking at Alex or displaying the shock she felt at the introduction of two more siblings he had never mentioned - an entire family.
Once again he had caught her ogling him. They had never been anywhere else overnight together. If I hadn't taken Destiny He had probably been hurting during the ride, but refused to say anything. But I have said they did not know you had a wound. Alex had asked one of the men go into town and rent a car for them.
The last time he made a business trip to Columbia, he had said they needed the money. It had provided the opportunity for him to accuse her of being unfaithful. No wonder Alex hadn't said anything about it. It wasn't the first time she had gone to bed while he was out on a call, but it was the first time she had done so away from home.
For a moment she lay waiting, and then realized he had fallen asleep. At the time she had thought Dulce was annoyed because she didn't like the punch. She had assumed Alex was, but Then again, Tessa had cheated on him. Maybe because it had the same theme of wrought iron and ivory as the hacienda - and maybe they had been visiting too long. They probably had a lot to discuss and most likely were not alone. On the other hand, Katie had flatly refused to provide some information because she said Alex wouldn't want her to tell.
He also had a sense of responsibility about it. By the time they finished erecting the oxygen tent over her bed, she had finally settled down. As if Destiny had not been through enough already, she was forced to stay inside the tent. Was God punishing Destiny because they had been greedy? When the doctor arrived, he had more bad news. The other lung was infected and they had switched to yet another antibiotic.
Hands clasped, she prayed fervently, asking God not to let Destiny suffer for what they had done. Later she remembered that Alex had asked her to call him if there was any change. I heard they had the airport cleared for flights now that it's stopped snowing. In a way, it was hard to believe it had been that long.
He had a lot on his plate right now But then, she had started it by shoving the pillow under her blouse. The plants she had started in the house in March thrived. Maybe she was right, and if Alex hadn't been such a perfect husband in every other way, she might have done it. She was the country bumpkin that he had to drag everywhere or be accused of being insensitive. Maybe it had something to do with his investments. It was possible that his father had given up on him.
He had a family to support - and two more children on the way. Later that night she woke and lay awake thinking about the way he had responded. As a matter of fact, he hadn't said that since he spent half the night with his old flame. Hadn't they talked enough? It shouldn't be any surprise, since that was what suffered when he had been troubled in the past. Right now she wished she hadn't started this romancing thing. Although she had said the words "I love you," several times, he had not uttered them.
It was as if they had started a fresh relationship. Katie leaned back, a triumphant look on her face as if she had made a point. When Alex came home that night she had supper ready.
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