Why there is "had had" in same sentence?
Today, during reading an online article I came across this sentence " I had had a great vacation". It left me in a sense of confusion. Why there are two "had" together in a sentence? If we drop second "had" from a sentence, does this will change its meaning.
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"I had been to the country before, but this was the first time I had seen a fox": [had been] = pluperfect of "to be"; [had seen] = pluperfect of "to see".
"I had had a dog before, but Ringo was very different." [had had]= pluperfect of "to have".
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It is past perfect. It refers to an event in the past prior to another event in the past. Without words like before or after, it would be confusing to know which event happened first.
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had had means pluperfect
had means preterite
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