https://video.pavel-english.ru/videos/watch/efa126ae-f425-491f-8443-a1b4591eef20 “Had had” may look wrong, but it’s one of the most useful grammar patterns in English. In this class, I explain why it’s actually correct English and how it helps us talk about events at different points in time. We’ll look at the difference between “have”, “have had”, “had had”, and “will have had”, and I’ll show you how these forms help us move between the present, past, and future with much greater precision. I’ll also connect these words and ideas with the perfect grammar tenses you have probably heard of – but only after you understand why we use them. https://www.engvid.com/master-english-time-perfect-tenses/ 🕰️ More of my videos about TIME: https://youtu.be/eJF-sXujcVg https://youtu.be/R1pzn5dS4_o In this lesson: 0:00 Confusing English Grammar: HAVE, HAVE HAD, HAD HAD, WILL HAVE HAD 1:32 have 2:08 have had 3:20 had had 4:23 will have had 5:32 Example Sentences 7:29 What tenses connect with these words? 8:33 Contractions 9:51 Write sentences! 10:59 Be a time traveller! Transcript: Hi. James from EngVid. Sorry you caught me. Doctor Who. Time traveling. Speaking of which, I'm going to teach you today how to use two words that you've probably got very angry when you see it, because you're confused, and that's "had had". You don't know what it's for, or you think the person who wrote it or said it made a mistake when they said it. No. What is actually happening is you, as a student, use basic English. You either use the simple present or the simple past, and we call that, like, flat English because it doesn't give us any nuance. That means it gives us any special information about what's happening and when, and today I'm going to take you to the board and teach you how to use "have", "had had", "will have had". Did I say "have had"? Maybe I did. Let's go back to... Let's go to the board. Ready? All right, so... Yes, E will correct me. Time. When we're using "have", "had had", "will have had", and "have had", they're about time. You will say, "James, but 'have' means, like, I have a phone." Yeah. Well, when do you have it? You have it here and now. Huh? "Have" is a special word because it talks about possession, owning something, but we can also talk about time in different ways that makes English rich and gives us a deeper understanding of what's going on and when it happened. All right? So, this is the TARDIS. That was my wah-wah-wah, wah-wah-wah, wah-wah-wah, wah-wah-wah, wah-wah-wah, I'm going to take you on a trip. All right? We're going to go time-traveling. And where should we start? When we start... When we time-travel, we have to start where we are, here, and we're going to start with "have". In fact, my little time box here represents an acronym for this. Funny enough, it works with the word "have", so you can remember this and remember what it does as we go through our TARDIS or our time machine. First, the word "have" itself is here and now. Right here, right now. There's another song I'm thinking of right now. Right here, right now. All right? So, that's that one, "have". Present, just present. But when we want to talk about something that has already happened before now, okay? So, here's now, but it happened just before. Right? I have been to Japan. I have read this book. I'm talking to you now, but it happened back here. We're going to use "have had". Now, you notice I have "pp" here for a reason, because we want to talk about past participle, because "had" here is a past participle, which means it tells us about the past. But sometimes you will see things like "have been", "have gone", "have seen". It is the same idea. Something has already happened, okay? But because the lesson is on "have" and how it changes, I just wanted to talk about that, but I wanted to make sure you understood that, so when you say "have seen", you don't go, "Well, James, you said only 'have had' means 'already', and they said 'have seen'." I'm like, "Yeah, it does." But it's past participle, and this is the past participle of "have". Cool? Great. So, we have "here and now" with "have". The "a" stands for "already", okay? Happened before now. Now, I'm going to give you this funny word over here, and you're going to say, "What is this?" Huh. Well, this, my friend, is vintage. Vintage. This also is vintage. Vintage means old or older, right, of a certain vintage, a certain time, and it means before in the past. And in this case, vintage, we're using for "had had". What does that mean? When we talk about "had had", two things happened, but it's not now. They both are in the past. The first "had" represents the first thing that happened. The second "had" represents the second thing that happened, okay? I'm going to give you some examples for each one afterwards. I just want to get you to get the meat of it, understand basically how we're traveling through time when we're using these words, all right? Next, so vintage means past, so we know this is the past, okay? 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