If clause

[diplomacy]

If I have had enough money,I would have bought a car.

Is this sentence correct? If not what is the correction?

[bhaisahab]

If I have had enough money,I would have bought a car.

Is this sentence correct? If not what is the correction?

No, it's not correct. Change "have had" to "had had".

[TheParser]

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Hello,

1. I believe that the correct sentence is:

If I had had enough money (last month), I would have bought a car.

2. Some native speakers feel that "had had" sounds funny, so they drop the first "had":

If I had enough money, I would have bought a car.

3. Some native speakers feel more comfortable in using "had had" if they use a contraction:

If I'd had enough money, I would have bought a car.

4. And some American native speakers even say:

If I would have had enough money, I would have bought a car.

This is considered incorrect.



James