Happy Birthday @JohnEGreen and enjoy your pancakes. We had ours on Saturday lunch time. Proper, normal pancakes, piping hot straight from the frying pan, spread with butter, a dash of lemon juice, and sprinkled with ...... sugar! Naughty but nice.
This is not the time for no heating or hot water @JohnEGreen , not in this foul weather. Not at any time to be honest. Take care.
You can say it like this example, he / she had had a dose of the medicine, it's past tense I think my brain's mushy this morning...is the 'had had' right or wrong?
You can say it like this example, he / she had had a dose of the medicine, it's past tense I think my brain's mushy this morning...
Looks like my sentence made sense after all thenYou can say it like this example, he / she had had a dose of the medicine, it's past tense I think my brain's mushy this morning...
But he didn't, it was his spaghetti, as my guests saved it for him, not for me. They had a point too, I knew at what time dinner was going to be served and I was late, my dog couldn't be blamed for being late as he was with me!@Antje77 you could say the dog had eaten your spaghetti & you resorted to eating the "emergency rations.."
You have a good point too hereThough, I'd be more concerned about saving my skin than cooking a tin of "alphabety" if the boat went down..
Could spell disaster...?
Just a quick question as my brain refuses to see what went wrong, language wise, and my logic says this is right but it looks weird all the same. I posted this in another thread, is the 'had had' right or wrong? Yes I know no-one holds my quirks in your language against me, and the more I use it the less I care about my Dutchisms and my freely mixing up of my tomatoes and tomatoes but that doesn't mean I don't want to know.
'I clearly remember that one morning after my dog had eaten spaghetti and I had had to make do with whatever emergency supplies I had in my cabin (I worked on a sailing ship with tourists and I was late for dinner. The guests did save a portion of garlic-heavy spaghetti bolognese for my dog but not for me). The wake-up doggy kisses were impressive. It didn't happen often that he had garlic and I didn't, luckily.'
@Antje77 Yes that sentence made perfect sense I often had had to use it myself
Some times the written form of English does seem to look strange when you look at it I think that it is probably due to English being such a mixed bag of languages that sometimes it just does not look right even when it is.
I think it happens in every language (I know it does in Dutch and German). When a strange phrase or word catches the eye and you keep staring at it it starts looking even stranger.Some times the written form of English does seem to look strange when you look at it I think that it is probably due to English being such a mixed bag of languages that sometimes it just does not look right even when it is.
Oh, that dog thrived on a diet of dry dog food whenever he was hungry and human food whenever people wanted to feed himI would have been more worried about the dog than the grammar.
Would the one had been enough though? This is mushing my brain cells now
And that is why I hated english grammar in school'had had' is the form of Past Perfect Tence of the verb 'to have'. It is quite often used in the reported speech, for example: He said that he had had that book before. I didn't know that word had had such a meaning 20 years before.
May be one would be sufficient but I have always used had had in those circumstances and in that context.
But he didn't, it was his spaghetti, as my guests saved it for him, not for me. They had a point too, I knew at what time dinner was going to be served and I was late, my dog couldn't be blamed for being late as he was with me!
'had had' is the form of Past Perfect Tence of the verb 'to have'. It is quite often used in the reported speech, for example: He said that he had had that book before. I didn't know that word had had such a meaning 20 years before.
May be one would be sufficient but I have always used had had in those circumstances and in that context.
Oh, it's not a doggy diet I would recommend to others, it's just that this particular dog seemed to have innards of stainless steelI don't feel they've evolved enough just yet even with our help, to knock up an Itallian..?Let alone metabolise it..
The comma definitely doesn't add senseMaybe the use of a comma to chop sense into it??
He said he had, had the that book before..
The comma definitely doesn't add sense
All upper / lower case unpunctuated blocks of text get up my nose.but I'm very critical on spelling / punctuation. A dying art much to our detriment.
Would the one had been enough though? This is mushing my brain cells now
'I clearly remember that one morning after my dog had eaten spaghetti and I had had to make do with whatever emergency supplies I had in my cabin (I worked on a sailing ship with tourists and I was late for dinner.
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