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Old November 11, 2009, 02:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Rusty View Post
"I have finished," "we have gone," and "John has eaten" are all examples of the present perfect tense.

The past perfect tense uses the past tense conjugation of the auxiliary and the past participle. For example:
I had finished
we had gone
John had eaten
Ah - OK it is just a difference in naming tenses: What you call the present perfect is for me simply the perfect tense. What you call the past perfect is what I call the pluperfect. We agree about the future tenses.

Yours must be an American convention, because my notation agrees closely with other European languages.

So my explanations above must be totally incomprehensible on that side of the Atlantic.

I'll leave Lee Ying to you.
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