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Rule "Had + verb present tense"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description:	Had + verb present tense
	By default, this rule is not active in LanguageTool
Message:	Possible agreement error — use the past participle here.
Category:	Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Link:	https://languagetool.org/insights/post/verb-tenses/
Incorrect sentences that this rule can detect:	They had play the game Correction suggestion: played If I’d known the context, I would never had spend a second on searching or doing them. Correction suggestion: spent That was the only thing Tom had do. Correction suggestion: done Now Apple had launch the new iPad Pro to the market, and I want to know if you know is this program will be available on iOS. Correction suggestion: launched
Correct sentences for comparison:	The jobs I have had are now not essential to my career anymore. Any traits it had are removed from any lists of trigger conditions. I felt tortured every second and now those horrid symptoms I had are gone. All other exceptions you had are the same as what GlobalCounterparty came up with. We are resisting Bridgeline's claim to an additional month of storage due to the fact that had gas been released in January 2002. I was a bit afraid to share because it had web.archive copyright notices all over the HTML. The outbreak had ripple effects across every industry.
ID:	HAD_VBP [1]
Version:	6.8-SNAPSHOT (2025-10-30 22:33:07 +0100)

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