Tracy Elina
The meeting was too short. I wish we'd had more time to discuss things. What's "we'd" here? Would or HAD?
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I'm not a teacher. Please correct me if I am wrong. I wish we'd had... I wish we had had... You are talking about something that happened in the past before another thing that also happened in the past. I wish we'd had time to talk before I left yesterday. I wish we'd have... I wish we would have... You are talking about something that didn't happen. I wish we would have talked more about it, but we didn't. However, never we'd have like "we would had" or "we had have". Just wrong grammar.
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Had. I wish we had had. It's using the past perfect tense of have.
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Try them both, and it should be obvious: We HAD had more time = past perfect We WOULD had more time = incorrect; doesn't make any sense. I realize it's a bit confusing, as WE WOULD HAVE HAD MORE TIME is also correct.
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"Would" is always followed by the bare infinitive. The same goes for all the "modal auxiliaries". No exceptions. So you can tell me, is the helping verb "would", or "had"?
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Yes English is strange at times. 🤣
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