What is the difference between HAVE HAD, HAS HAS, and HAD HAD? Watch this video and find out. Also see - MOST COMMON MISTAKES IN ENGLISH & HOW TO AVOID THEM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dax90QyXgI&list=PLmwr9polMHwsR35rD9spEhjFUFa7QblF9 ★★★ Also check out ★★★ ➜ PARTS OF SPEECH (Verb, Noun, Adjective, Adverb etc.): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmwr9polMHwsQmAjoAxtFvwk_PaqQeS68 ➜ SHOULD HAVE, COULD HAVE, WOULD HAVE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk6F73hOX_I&index=1&list=PLmwr9polMHwsR35rD9spEhjFUFa7QblF9 ➜ HAVE, HAS, HAD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09S3IoRCbSg&index=2&list=PLmwr9polMHwsR35rD9spEhjFUFa7QblF9 For more FREE English lessons, SUBSCRIBE to this channel. Transcript: Hey there and welcome back. I'm Ganesh from LearnEnglishLab.com and in today's lesson we're going to talk about have had, has had, and had had. Now many students have come to me and said - I saw had had in a sentence. Is that grammatically correct or is that an error - is that a typo? meaning a printing error. And let me tell you all three of these forms are grammatically correct and you should learn how to use them correctly. Alright, over here I have three sentences that are going to help us understand these forms take a look at the first sentence - I have had lunch what a strange sounding sentence right - I have had lunch. well let me tell you a little secret when you see two 'have's in a sentence this is have, this is also have, it's just in the past participle form - its had but it's basically just have. So when you see two 'have's in a sentence then the first have and the second have have different meanings this first have is called a helping verb I've written helping verb over there and this had is called the main verb it's called the main verb because it has the main meaning in the sentence - this have only shows the tense of the sentence so when you see have or had used as the main verb that means that it is being used as a shortcut for some other word but in this case what could that other word be? What could be the meaning of had? Well take a look at this list over on the side. When we use have as the main verb in a sentence it could mean a number of different things - it could mean to eat like when we talk about having breakfast or having dinner or it could mean to have a drink which means just to drink something or we could be talking about owning something like when I say I have a car I mean that I own a car or it could show some relationship between people I have a sister - that means or that shows a brother-sister relationship or it could talk about some kind of experience like if I said I had difficulty or I had trouble finding the place that means it was difficult for me to find the place Now these are just some example meanings of have. The word have has many meanings in English so if you want to see all of those meetings go and look at your dictionary and find the word have and you'll see a lot of meanings but these are some of the more common meanings OK let's now look at our sentence - I have had lunch so what could this had mean in this sentence? well in this sentence it means eaten because here you see there's the word lunch so this sentence just means "I have eaten lunch." we are using had as the shortcut for eaten OK but what about this have? Well as I told you before that have shows the tense of the sentence. To understand that read the sentence without the have I had lunch. I had lunch means I ate lunch. When did I have lunch? maybe I had lunch yesterday or the day before - any time in the past and that has no connection to the present. But when we use this have it shows that my eating lunch has some connection to the present. For example if a friend comes to me and asks "Hey do you want to have lunch with me?" and I don't want to have lunch because my lunch is already finished i would say "Oh I have had lunch" Thank you very much. So this have shows that I just ate lunch so it shows some connection to the present So you see this have shows the tense and this had means eaten so they're completely different functions or purposes Alright with this knowledge let's now look at the second sentence - He has had four jobs in two years once again we're going to separate the two 'have's this is the helping verb and this is the main verb. And the meaning of the main verb here is worked so "He has worked four jobs in two years" is what it means So once again had is being used as a shortcut for worked What about this has? Well this is just the same as this have over here but we are saying has because the subject is he if the subject is he, she, or it we say has. If the subject is I, you, we or they we use have. So if the subject here were I, this would be have I have had four jobs in two years but since it's he, it's has and once again the tense here is the present perfect tense and this 'has' shows some connection to the present