I want to make myself clear about why it is 'have you had your papers checked?'?

Sorry for spelling mistake in my previous question.


Can you explain me please why the question form is 'have you had your papers checked?' in stead of 'Had you have your papers checked?' as I am describing this situation is in past. So I know that the question starts with past form of a auxiliary verb.





I'll be greatful if u help me.I want to make myself clear about why it is 'have you had your papers checked?'?
Yads is right. It says ';Have you had your papers checked'; because they want to know if that has happened BEFORE NOW AT ANY TIME. ';Have you had'; has a relationship with the present. It means until now, has this thing ever happened. The time is unimportant, as long as it's sometime before now. Think of time as UNFINISHED.





Had you ever had would be used before last year, yesterday, when you were 10 years old, to show that checking your papers happened first. ';Had you had your papers checked before they were checked yesterday? Think of time as FINISHED.





Someone checked my papers. That's past tense.


Someone has checked my papers. That's present perfect.


Someone had checked my papers. That's past perfect.





Have something done is a special construction. We use the past participle with ';have'; to mean someone else is perfrming the action for us. Notice I said ';have XX done,'; nto ';do.'; Another example: I'm going to have my house PAINTED.





Anwar's question IS NOT IN THE PAST TENSE. IT IS IN THE PRESENT PERFECT.I want to make myself clear about why it is 'have you had your papers checked?'?
';Have you had your papers checked?'; asked the guard on the gate. ';Yes,'; I responded. ';The guard at the door already asked if I had had them checked.';





To say that your papers ';have been checked'; is to describe something in the past tense. To say that they ';had been checked'; is to describe something in the past tense also, but less recent. For the checking of your papers to be in the present tense, you would have to say ';they are being checked';.
it's ';have'; because you are asking about the ';now'; situation of the paper checked in the past.





it's like: ';ok i want to know NOW, are your papers checked already?';





this is layman explanation; grammatically it might be more confusing for you





';grateful'; ;)
No! The question does NOT start with the past tense of the auxiliary verb. The auxiliary verb (have) is what makes it past tense. This sentence (question in this case) is an example of a passive causative construction, like ';Have you had your hair cut?'; ';Has he had his car washed?';
You want to make yourself clear? Anwar, you've failed.