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 Have

When to have is used as a transitive verb, its conjugation is as follows:

I have                  we have

you have              you have

he / she / it has    they have

Because to have is a transitive verb, it can be followed by a direct object.

I have a story to tell you.

She has a problem with her computer.

But when a conjugation of to have is followed by a past participle, it forms one of the perfect tenses: the present perfect tense, the past perfect tense, or the future perfect tense. Regular past participles look like the past tense; they have the ending -ed: jumped, cried, looked, and so on. Irregular participles are formed in different ways. Following are some examples with high-frequency verbs:

Infinitive Have  Irregular Past Participle

to bring              have brought

to cut                 have cut

to go                 have gone

to see               have seen

to send             have sent

to speak           have spoken

to take             have taken

to write            have written

The Present Perfect Tense

When the auxiliary have is conjugated in the present tense and is followed by a regular or an irregular past participle, the tense is called the present perfect tense. It is only the third-person singular where the auxiliary have changes to has.

I have learned       we have understood

you have taken     you have noticed

he has been          they have found

she has drunk

it has fallen

Use the present perfect tense to say that an action began in the past and has continued until the present.

For example:

He has spoken English for two years. (He began to speak English two years ago. He still speaks English.)

Rewrite each of the following phrases in the present perfect tense.

1. I find

2. they begin

3. Mark thinks

4. she studies

5. we arrange

6. it breaks

7. you pretend

8. he is

9. Ms. Brown forgets

10. each boy tries

11. Tom and I dance

12. the woman knit

13. someone shouts

14. I know

15. you come

16. it rains

17. no one remembers

18. we lend

19. someone knocks