: Re: Other options for "had had"? Although the use of "had had" is grammatically correct, it doesn't read well and seems awkward to me. Take for example the following sentence: I had had enough

Rewriting to avoid "had had" is almost always a good idea. It reads even more terribly than it sounds.
The easy way out is to use a contraction:

I'd had enough of this nonsense and was ready to move on.

...but that's a little cheap. Depending on the context of the quote, you have several options:

Having had enough of this nonsense, I was ready to move on.
I was fed up with this nonsense and ready to move on.
"Damn this nonsense and twirl my whiskers," I said, fully prepared and capable of moving along.

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