20 Jul

Which One Is Correct: “I Had No Classes” Or “I Didn’t Had Any Class”?

Which one is correct: “I had no classes” or “I didn’t had any class”?

 

Looking at the asked question, even if we read the sentences more than twice, we will notice that the first sentence sounds fine; however, there is something wrong with the second sentence.

Out of these two, “I had no classes” or “I didn’t had any class”?  The sentence “I had no classes” Is correct, and the other sentence is incorrect and can be called a sentence with awful structure or bad grammar.

 

Reason

As you learn the language, you start learning its rules. There is a rule in English Grammar that after the words like DID, DOES, and DO, the verb used should be in its root form. The same is the case after the modal verbs.

Modal Verbs. The sentence, “I didn’t had any class”, is thus incorrect as it is not consistent with the mentioned rule. It should have been, “I didn’t have any class.””

The order of the sentence should be the same as the general order we know, i.e., subject + verb (the correct form) + object. The correct sentence is, I did not have (a correct form of the verb) any class. The form of the verb “have” used here is V 1 form.

 

Use of Had and Have

In order to understand the difference between the use of Had and Have has been important to be able to use present perfect and past perfect tense correctly. Both these tenses are made with the use of auxiliaries + main verbs or modal verbs.

 

Which one is correct?

Present Perfect Tense uses HAVE / HAS + VERB (PAST)

For example:

I have eaten all my lunch.

We have left this city since a long time now.

In these sentences, we observe that in the present perfect tense, the action started in the past and has finished in the present. The other instance is that the action that is being spoken of is the action of the past without mentioning exactly when it happened.

 

Past Perfect tense uses HAD + VERB(Past)

For example:

My daughter had finished her lunch as soon as I entered home.

I had left this city for five years when I was thirteen.

In the above examples, the past perfect tense is used when one action happened in the past after another action of the past.

In the present perfect tense, we use auxiliary verbs, and with them, it is always “have” with I, for, you, we, they). Had is used in the past perfect tense.

 

 

“I had no classes” or “I didn’t had any class”?

In another instance, have and had are used together when have is the main verb in the sentence.

For example:

1. I am feeling less energetic. I have had a bad stomach all day.
2. We have had some disputes with the neighbours lately.
3. Aunt carl has had two sons in her five years of marriage.

In the above examples, we see that have and had are used together when have was used as the main verb.

These verbs are used together more frequently in spoken English, and it is important to note that in spoken English, we use short forms, which are usually two words.

 

For example:

1. I am feeling less energetic. I’ve had a bad stomach all day.
2. We’ve had disputes with the neighbours lately.

Auxiliary verbs

To understand Auxiliary verbs, we have to understand some tricky rules which will make it easier to use these helping verbs.

• Personal pronouns

Personal pronouns are words used instead of a noun, for example, IE, you, we, they. He, she, and it are set 2 of these personal pronouns.

• Types of sentences

There are two types of sentences: negative and positive.

A positive sentence is any statement that is true. For example, I read.

A negative is a sentence in which the statement is not true or denying. For example, I don’t read.

By utilizing these two  concepts, we get sentences like

1. I have a book.
2. I don’t have a book.

• Do/ Does/ Did

“Do” is used with Present tense + (I, you, we, they are Set 1)

Example: I do my homework.

“Does” is used with Present tense + (He, She, it is Set 2)

Example: she does her homework.

“Did” is used with Past tense + ( Both set 1 and 2)

Example: we did our homework.

I did my homework.

 

English grammar is always complicated, but applying rules can make you less prone to errors.

In understanding the asked problem, we were supposed to understand some very basic but easy to confuse concepts.

For example, auxiliary verbs, also known as helping verbs, are commonly used in written and spoken sentences. Learning the use of do, did, and does Can make you a pro at  Making correct English sentences.

Moreover, in this article, we learned the use of had and have with different forms of tenses.  Learning the use of auxiliary verbs or modal verbs is important to construct a sentence with the correct tense.

In the asked example in the title of this article, we see that the incorrect sentence had the use of an incorrect auxiliary verb. If the word have was used instead of had, it would be a correct sentence.

Secondly, the sentence had the short form off did not, which shows that the sentence was spoken. As in spoken sentences, we use short forms however spoken English is more likely to have grammatical errors as this one had.

 

Conclusion

Grammar can be confusing, and concepts like these are even more complicated; however, the concepts are simple and easy to understand. There are some instances where basic rules changes are exceptions.

With practice and time, you can also handle grammatical exceptions. Such as the use of “did” When we need emphasis, that can be different from the said rules, for example:” I did want to tell you but have no courage.”

Such sentences are exceptions that come with different impressions that are less likely to occur, so they don’t have a separate rule. These exceptions can be learned separately.

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