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- archaic language - Hath or has? Which one is better to use - English . . .
Here I am aware of it, but I am not getting it The sea hath has many thousand sands Hath and has both seem to be same meaning Which one is better to use? Shall I use hath or has?
- Can we use the verb hath in modern English? [closed]
No Hath is archaic and is not used in current spoken or written English, unless you are deliberately trying to sound very old-fashioned (as in, 400 years out-of-date)
- He had to do it. VS He had to have done it.
What do you mean by It couldn't have been done by anybody but him? That could be interpreted two ways - "He is the only person who could have done it" (a deduction about the past) or "He was the only person able to do it" (a statement about a situation in the past) Otherwise, I agree with Stuart's answer
- Does she have Has she usage - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
Does she have a child? Has she a child? In American English, you need to use the auxiliaries do and does with the main verb have to form a question in the present tense In British English, you can use either the do and does with have or the main verb have only as in the second sentence to form a question So the second sentence that starts with the verb have is correct in formal BrE
- When do we use havent had, hadnt had, and didnt have?
I haven't had my breakfast yet [this morning] I hadn't had my breakfast when I got your phone call yesterday morning Because I overslept, I didn't have my breakfast until 10 p m
- done vs have done - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
I think this sentence is correct I done something This is also correct I have done something What are the involved tense? How are they different?
- grammar - Difference between fell and had fallen - English Language . . .
Hello, Dean Your second variant certainly seems to use the timeframes set by the verb phrases more logically, but the first, less logical variant, is far more idiomatic Practised Anglophones avoid the past perfect unless it's absolutely necessary Here, as pragmatics (the way the language is actually used) and logic inform us that the fall came before the journey to hospital, the first
- Difference between have done and had done
Have done --- Have done is a present perfect tense, generally it is used when the action is completed recently just now Had done -- Had done is a past perfect tense, generally refers to something which happened earlier in the past, before another action also occured in the past For Example: We have done the work -- Here the action completed recently just now My friend offered me an apple in
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