We can use ‘Has’, ‘Have’ and ‘Had’ in three ways.
The first way it can be used as a ‘helping verb’. Commonly we see it in perfect tense. Some
examples of using ‘Has’, ‘Have’, ‘Had’, and with ‘been’ as ‘has been’, ‘have been’ and ‘had
been’ etc.;
In ‘Present Perfect Tense’:
1. He has finished his homework. (Use ‘Has’ when subject is singular)
2. I have a plan to execute to win the match. (Use ‘Have’ when subject is plural)
In ‘Past Perfect Tense’:
1. He had finished his homework. (Use always ‘Had’ whether subject is singular or
plural)
In ‘Future Perfect Tense’:
1. He will have finished his homework. (Use always ‘Will have’ or ‘Shall have’ whether
subject is singular or plural)
In ‘Present Perfect Continuous Tense’: (Present Progressive tense with ‘Time’)
1. He has been finishing his homework for two hours. (In period of time use ‘For’ )
OR
1. He has been finishing his homework since 3 c`lock. (In point of time use ‘Since’)
In ‘Past Perfect Continuous Tense’: (Past Progressive tense with ‘Time’)
1. He had been finishing his homework for two hours. (In period of time use ‘For’)
OR
1. He had been finishing his homework since 3 o`clock. (In point of time use ‘Since’)
In ‘Future Perfect Continuous Tense’: (Future Progressive tense with ‘Time’)
1. He will have been finishing his homework for two hours. (In period of time use ‘For’)
OR
1. He will have been finishing his homework for two hours. (In point of time use ‘Since’)
The second way is using ‘Has’, ‘Have’ or ‘Had’ as a main verb. We can use it as a main verb
as other verbs are used.
Examples:
1. I have a book but my brother has not any book.(Use ‘Has’ for singular and ‘Have’
for plural)
2. She has a nice pen.
3. I had a bicycle when I was young.
4. Sachin Tendulkar had his first century in his 89th one day cricket match.
The third way of using ‘Has’, ‘Have’ and ‘Had’ with ‘To’ where is compulsion to do any work.
(Use always with ‘To’)
Examples:
1. I have to finish the works because I have not any other way. (I don’t want to do that
work but because of ‘Compulsion’ I have to do)
2. P.V. Sindhu has to satisfy with the silver medal because she lost the final match.
3. Former Prime Minister had to apply emergency because there was no other way.
4. "Has been" and "have been" are both in the present perfect tense. "Has been" is used in
the third-person singular and "have been" is used for first- and second-person singular
and all plural uses. The present perfect tense refers to an action that began at some time in
the past and is still in progress. For example, if I started studying art when I was 13 years
old and I am still studying art, I would say "I have been studying art since I was 13 years
old."
5. "Had been" is the past perfect tense and is used in all cases, singular and plural. The past
perfect tense refers to something that began in the past and was still true at another time
that also was in the past. So, if I began studying art when I was 13, and I got married
when I was 21, and now I am 55, I could say "When I got married, I had been studying
art for 8 years." The "when I got married" part identifies a specific time in the past, and
the "had been studying for 8 years" says that the studying was still going on at another
time that is alos in the past. Note that it does not matter, in this case, whether I am still
studying art in the present - the sentence is correct either way.
