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Originally Posted by Rusty
"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
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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.