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Perfect Tense:

13 13 Present, Past, Future

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Write the sentences as indicated below.

Present perfect tense

1. ______________________________________________________________

Past perfect tense

1. ______________________________________________________________

Future perfect tense

1. ______________________________________________________________

‘Tense’ means time of an action or an event.

We read about simple and continuous tenses in our earlier class. Now we shall read

about the perfect tenses—present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect tenses.

1. Present Perfect Tense: When the work is completely finished and its effect or re-
sult exists in the present, it is present perfect tense.

They have gone from here.
O
She has taken the day off.
O
2. Past Perfect Tense: When the work was completely finished in the past at a cer-

tain time or before another work started, it is past perfect tense.

The crops had failed before it rained.
O
She had finished her homework before he came.
O

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