{ had {had unsatisfactory sex} by the time of his birthday on 20th Dec }. Using your original sentences as example Temporal displacement to present: I had my car for four years before I …

By the time we arrived, the party had begun. = The party began. Then we arrived. By the time we arrived, they had eaten all the food! = They ate all the food; then we arrived. I had had a bad …

2020年2月10日 · We could say we had our copy replaced five years ago, and today it looks worn out. We could say we just have had our copy replaced, and the book is as good as new. To …

2014年2月12日 · I have had letters delivered to me in the last week. The first (marked with an asterisk) is incorrect because it defines a specific time, and the form does not work with a …

'He has had his breakfast'. - present perfect tense with a third person singular subject as in 'He has eaten his breakfast. 'I had had my breakfast.' - past perfect tense as in 'I had eaten my …

But in this sentence the verb had means something like believed, perceived, recorded, claimed, or stated. The clerk said the robber was tall and blond, but another witness had the robber as …

2019年3月13日 · Let's see if this entry had changed... This is the past perfect tense, and refers to the status of the entry being different when measured at some prior unspecified point. i.e. Last …

I had must be followed either by an object (a noun phrase, e.g. I had a little lamb, in which meaning it is rarely contracted) or by a verb's past participle. So it's (almost) always possible …

If I had heard the phone ring, I would have answered it. If the economy hadn't declined so quickly, he would already have a job now. Besides simply placing the word "if" before the conditional …

What is the correct word order between have/had, been, and already in statements like the following: By the time the product was officially announced, I had already been using it. Or: By …