Have-Variants

Have as five grammatical variants and they are as follows:

Have

Has

Having

Had

Had

Okay, let’s see how the five variants can be categorized on the tense table:

Present (singular)	Present (plural)	continuous	Past	perfect
has	have	having	had	had

Let’s quickly consider a few examples of how they can respectively be used in sentences:

1.      She has come back from London.

2.      They have arrived from the party.

3.      We are having Math. class tomorrow.

4.      They had gone before we arrived.

5.      We have had rice before they brought beans.

You should be aware of the fact that the auxiliary verb, Have and its variants can also act as lexical or main verbs.  We call such verbs, anomalous verbs. Let’s consider the examples below.

1.      She has a beautiful car.

2.      They have good manners.

3.      We are having lunch now.

4.      They had breakfast by 10 A.M this morning.

5.      We have had our breakfast this morning.

Exercise

Use the word in the table below to make five more sentences:

subject	Auxiliary verbs	Main verbs	Objects/complement
I She/he They Tolu James and Caleb	have has had has have	arrived told shown eaten had	home her name us their house my food lunch today

For instance:

1.      James and Caleb have eaten my food.

2.      They have had lunch today.