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Perfect
Perfect is a tense. Tense helps the reader to know what kind of action is being written about.
The perfect tense often helps the reader to know that an action has happened or was completed in the past. It often continues to affect people in the present time.
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Some scholars think people use tense to show how they perceive how an action occurs or want to portray an action to occur. They think this tense does not directly tell the reader what an action is like or when an action happens.
How is it used in a sentence?
- It can be used when someone wants the reader to pay attention to how an action affects people in the present time. Someone may also want the reader to know that the action may also produce a result or state in the present time.
- It can tell the reader, by the account from the writer from that time, renewing the lessons of the past, and focusing on the completion or consummation of actions that began long ago and may have current consequences. But the action is still viewed as important and determinative in this age, though the writer may have written long ago.
- It can tell the reader that an action has occurred repeatedly.
- It can tell the reader that action has happened or has been completed.
See: Verb; Indicative