Difference Between Have/has Never And Had Never

What is the difference between “never have” and “never had”?

This is difficult to explain fully because “have” can be a main verb or a helper/ auxiliary verb. As a main verb, “I have” is always present tense as in “I have a car.” “I had a car” is past meaning you did have a car but don’t have one now. You’d never say “I never have a car” because it indicates repetitive action but you can say “I never have coffee.” which means that at the present time (still present tense), your intention is not to indulge in coffee, now or in the future and you probably didn’t in the past. If you used to drink coffee but cut it out, you’d say “I never have coffee anymore.” Remember, “have” is always present tense as a stand-alone verb, “had” is past. You put “will”/shall” in front of “have” to make it future tense.“I never had coffee” is past tense meaning that you’ve never had coffee before in your life. For past perfect tense, you’d say “I have never had coffee”, essentially the same meaning. If you were talking about your first drink of coffee, you might say “I had never had coffee until last week when I went to a restaurant.” Of course, for all the examples here, you could replace coffee with whiskey to make it more interesting.

What is difference between never and ever?

Never vs Ever“Ever” and “never” are opposites of each other and have different usages in the English language. “Never” is used mostly in statements, whereas “ever” is usually used while interrogating.Ever “Ever” used as an adverb“Ever” means “always, at all times,” for example;I am ever ready to answer your questions.It means continuously, for example;She started learning English at two and has been learning to speak ever since.At any possible time,for example; Have you ever heard of it ?At all, by any chance,for example; How did you ever do this?“Ever” used as an adjectiveI get up at 6 a.m every morning.Other usages “Ever” is mostly used in a question form,for example; Have you ever been to the club?It is usually used just before the main verb,for example; Do they ever go to cinemas?Never “Never” used as an adverb“Never” means, “at no time, not ever,”for example; I never go office late. It means “absolutely not,”for example;This your suggestion can never work.“To no degree,”for example; You are never going to English if you do not practice.In informal writing, “never” is used in place of “not.”For example, I did not say so. ( = I never said so.)

What is the difference between "I had never thought of that" and "I never thought of that"?

You have accurate answers already, but let me see if I can clarify this whole Perfect thing.I had never thought of that—the past perfect tense of think—means that the action of not thinking preceded some other action. For example:“I had never thought of that, so I was surprised when he showed me that a simple change in plan would create a better atmosphere.”The thinking refers to the change in plan. It happened prior to “him” showing you how it would have changed the atmosphere. There has to be a second action set in time closer to the present and after the past action in order for the past perfect tense to make sense.I never thought of that, on the other hand, simply means before this moment in time without any intervening actions on the timeline. It’s not the best grammatical structure. I would prefer I didn’t think of that. But either would be clearly understood as the not thinking happening simply prior to the moment when the present discussion was begun. I have never thought of that is equally reasonable. In your sentence, I never thought of that, the helper verb is omitted because it’s a colloquial usage.

What's the difference between "I had never been abroad" and "I have never been abroad"?

I had never been abroad = past perfect. We use this tense to speak about a past moment, before another past moment.My trip to China was really eyeopening. I had never been abroad. (You not going abroad happened before your trip to China.)I couldn’t drink very much on the night out. I had never drunk alcohol before. (You not drinking alcohol happened before the night out.)IF you look at this image, it’s clear that helping happened before bringing.I have never been abroad = present perfectWe use this tense to speak about our life experiences.I have ever been abroad (in my life).I have never drunk alcohol (in my life.)

What's the difference between "had become" and "had became"?

“had became” is not grammatically possible.“had become” is the correct past perfect form.We say that every English verb has three “parts”:the dictionary, or base form, or simple present formthe past formthe past participleThe past participle has three uses:It follows the helping verb have/has/had to make a perfect verb form, the way you have made past perfect, above.It follows a form of the verb “to be” to form the passive voice (“Both French and English are spoken in Canada”).It can often be used as an adjective (really a kind of passive use as well).For a regular verb, both the past form and the past participle are formed by adding -ed to the base form:I usually cook dinner every night (base form).My roommate cooked last night (past form).He had never cooked for us before (past perfect using the past participle)The meat wasn’t cooked long enough (passive voice using the past participle)However, irregular verbs are verbs that have different, unpredictable past and past participle forms.“Become” is one of these. “Became” is the past form and the past participle is “become”“Became” is only for the simple past tense:“We all became ill.”To make a perfect form with has, I use the past participle “become” (which is the same as the present form in the case of this verb):“I have become the cook again.”Here is a link to a list of commonly used irregular verbs. The good news is that any verb not on this list is probably regular.ENGLISH PAGE - Irregular Verb Page

What is the difference between “I never experienced it” and “I have never experienced it”?

“I never experienced it” means that the opportunity to do it is now gone, either literally or figuratively.“I have never experienced it” means that you just haven’t done it yet, but the possibility exists to do it in the future.“I never went to a dance in high school” = high school is over, it’s too late.“I have never gone to a dance in high school” = I’m still in high school; maybe I’ll go to the next dance.Another pair of examples:“I never saw ‘Star Wars’” = and I don’t think I ever will. I could, but I don’t ever intend to.“I have never seen ‘Star Wars’” = but maybe I’ll watch it tonight. Or next year.One more: Once I was talking with my sister, and I mentioned a certain food our mother used to make at Thanksgiving. She said, “I never liked it.” The fact is, that our mother has died, and no one makes this dish any more. If our mother was still alive and still serving this food at holidays, she would have said, “I’ve never liked it.”

What is the difference between the English sentences “I never thought that he could be this nice” and “I never have thought that he could be this nice”?

They both say about the same thing….and neither are quite correct.The first sentence should read (grammatically) “I never thought he could be this nice” means the person saying it has thought the subject could be nice, but not this nice…that is nice to this level.The second sentence should read (grammatically) “I would never have thought he could be this nice” means the person saying it has never believed the subject could be this nice. This sentence is more of a surprise about the nice behavior.Note I removed the word ‘THAT’ from both sentences…a report writing class I took claimed that the word that should be removed whenever possible as most of the time that word is just filler… (the instructor in one class had us write the word on a piece of paper and erase it….and then we went about using “that” when appropriate…if you can read the sentence without it, and it makes sense, it was filler.