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Quote from: Callaway on May 20, 2007, 06:30:14 PMQuote from: McFonzarelli on May 20, 2007, 05:58:03 PMis it ever appropriate to write you'd had in a sentence?You’d is the contraction for both “you would†and “you had.†I can't think of a sentence with "you had had" but if you can think of one, then you could properly use "you'd had" in its place. If you used "you would had" then you would need a "have" in there, I think, so it would be "you'd have had" as in, "You'd have had a chance in the race, but you pulled your hamstring.""You had had" is plusquamperfectum, "pluperfect". The first "had" is imperfectum or preteritum depending on which kind of grammar you've learnt; the second one is perfectum. The first "had" is a so called "help verb" to the second, because in English both the imperfectum and the perfectum form of "have" is "had". In Swedish the first "had" would be "hade" and the second" haft", together "hade haft", which is plusquamperfectum or, shorter, pluperfect. It's just unusual to use that form in English but not impossible.
Quote from: McFonzarelli on May 20, 2007, 05:58:03 PMis it ever appropriate to write you'd had in a sentence?You’d is the contraction for both “you would†and “you had.†I can't think of a sentence with "you had had" but if you can think of one, then you could properly use "you'd had" in its place. If you used "you would had" then you would need a "have" in there, I think, so it would be "you'd have had" as in, "You'd have had a chance in the race, but you pulled your hamstring."
is it ever appropriate to write you'd had in a sentence?
it is well known that PMS Elle is evil.
I think you'd fit in a 12" or at least a 16" firework mortar
You win this thread because that's most unsettling to even think about.
If you'd had to explain any more of that, Lit, my brain might have exploded.
On the other hand my EQ is 67.
Quote from: Litigious on May 21, 2007, 06:06:22 AMOn the other hand my EQ is 67. Better than mine which was 57 using this test http://www.queendom.com/tests/access_page/index.htm?idRegTest=1121
Guys, remember- the free report is only ONE SCALE. Calling it your actual EQ qould be rather like calling your MBTI personality type "introverted something something something."
Quote from: PMS Elle on May 24, 2007, 04:58:11 PMGuys, remember- the free report is only ONE SCALE. Calling it your actual EQ qould be rather like calling your MBTI personality type "introverted something something something."Oh, I've taken that test. I'm something something something something.
