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<div style="font-size:300%;">Perfect Tenses</div> | <div style="font-size:300%;">Perfect Tenses</div> | ||
The 3 perfect tenses in English show actions already completed. The word perfect literally means "completely done". | The 3 perfect tenses in English show actions already completed. The word perfect literally means "completely done". | ||
They are formed as followed: | They are formed as followed: | ||
<code>to have (with the appropriate tense) + the past participle of the verb.</code> | |||
==Present Perfect== | ==Present Perfect== | ||
I have eaten. | I have eaten. | ||
==Past Perfect== | ==Past Perfect== | ||
I had eaten. | I had eaten. | ||
==Future Perfect== | ==Future Perfect== | ||
I will have eaten. | I will have eaten. | ||
Revision as of 12:24, 23 May 2021
Perfect Tenses
The 3 perfect tenses in English show actions already completed. The word perfect literally means "completely done".
They are formed as followed:
to have (with the appropriate tense) + the past participle of the verb.
Present Perfect
I have eaten.
Past Perfect
I had eaten.
Future Perfect
I will have eaten.