Had meaning

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(auxiliary) Used to form the pluperfect tense, expressing a completed action in the past (+ past participle).
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Simple past tense and past participle of have.
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Had is defined as to have contained, held or owned something in the past.

An example of had is to have kept up a perfect attendance score until yesterday.

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(auxiliary, now rare) As past subjunctive: ‘would have’.
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Sentence Examples

  • They had two adopted children already.

  • Certainly she had been under a lot of stress.

  • A nearby steeple had been broken off short and the fragments lay heaped beside it.

  • All the papers had been signed and the money provided.

  • Would she ever outgrow the things mama had taught her?

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