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What are perfect tenses?
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The perfect tenses describe actions that have already been completed or that began in the past and are relevant to the present or that will have happened at a particular time in the future.
They are also referred to as the perfective aspect. |
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What are present perfect simple tenses?
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The present perfect simple tense is used to describe actions that occurred in the past but are still relevant to the present.
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What are past perfect simple tenses?
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The past perfect simple is used to describe one action that happened before another action in the past.
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In many cases a complete sentence is written in two parts with two different tenses:
The past perfect simple, to refer to the action that happened first or earlier The past simple to refer to the action that happened second or later Sometimes the past perfect simple is used on its own and the action that took place afterwards is understood. |
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What are present perfect progressive (continuous) tenses?
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The present perfect progressive (continuous) is used to describe an event that started in the past but is still happening in the present.
That event in the present can be An habitual event |
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What are past perfect progressive (continuous) tenses?
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The past perfect progressive (continuous) is used to describe an action that started in the past and and was still in progress when a second action started.
Both actions began and ended in the past. As in the past perfect simple, the sentence has two parts. |
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What are future perfect simple tenses?
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The future perfect simple is used to explain an activity that will be completed by a certain time in the future.
We add time expressions such as by the time, by then, by the year 2008, by March 25th to describe these kinds of activities. |
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