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The Future Perfect Tense

Posted November 13th, 2007 by Leon

A. USE

1. The Future Perfect tense is used to refer to a non-continuous action which will be completed by a certain time in the future.
Future Perfect, gelecekte belirli bir zamandan önce tamamlanmış olacak eylemleri ifade etmek için future perfect tense kullanılır.

In September, I will have lived in Malatya for four years.
Thomas
will have finished the project by Wednesday.

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Past Perfect Simple

Posted October 30th, 2007 by silgitsin

Past perfect tense is used to indicate that one action occurred before another action in the past. In other words, past perfect tense indicates the first of the two actions.*

For example,

When I woke up this morning, my roommate had left already.

After I had eaten my dinner, I went to see a movie.

Before I arrived at the theater, the movie had already begun.

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Present Perfect Progressive

Posted October 29th, 2007 by admin

The present perfect progressive expresses the meaning “until now” and makes the connection between the past and present. Since it is progressive, it usually connotes an idea of continuity. It is often used with prepositional phrases: for + amount of time and since + point in time.

I have been living in Minneapolis since 1999.

I have been living in Minneapolis for three years.

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Past Perfect

Posted October 29th, 2007 by admin

Past Perfect

Past perfect tense is used to indicate that one action occurred before another action in the past. In other words, past perfect tense indicates the first of the two actions.*

For example,

When I woke up this morning, my roommate had left already.

After I had eaten my dinner, I went to see a movie.

Before I arrived at the theater, the movie had already begun.

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Posted in English Tenses, Teaching Grammar No Comments Tags: past, perfect
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