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Originally Posted by Pitchwife
Don't they teach you the proper use of perfect and imperfect in school nowadays?  |
No, actually.
That is probably why a lot of second-language speakers know the grammar of that language better than native speakers.
It's just that that phrase sounds a bit like "I have had... [and
now I have...]"
Or maybe, like you said, it's me mixing up my haves and hads.