Which is correct please ?
"He had very little sleep"
or
"he had had very little sleep"
Thank-you!
"He had very little sleep"
or
"he had had very little sleep"
Thank-you!
Had can be used as a simple past tense verb meaning "possessed" or "experienced." (The present tense version would be "have.") For example, "In 1982, I had a house in the suburbs."bestpolar wrote:Which is correct please ?
"He had very little sleep"
or
"he had had very little sleep"
Thank-you!
It can also be used as an auxiliary verb to indicate the past perfect tense, which refers to an action that occurred before something else in the past. "I had trained for several months before I ran the marathon."
You could also combine the two uses - "Before I ate the entree I had had a salad."
