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PRESENT PERFECT TENSE He examples of a present perfect tense are those according to the following pattern: Subject + Have/has

+ verb in past participle As that we have: I have worked all day We have seen that movie before You have changed your ways in a huge manner He has never seen her Work and play around to see which other combination's you can get. The Brother has been improving since they recruited a new members. = present perfect continuous Jemariel Philline taja-on has been playing chess since she was in High School. = present perfect continuous The Cheetah has been the record holder for being the fastest animal in land.=not a good sentence. The cheetah is the record holder for the fastest animal on land. (not present perfect) It depends on what you are trying to convey PAST PERFECT TENSE It depends on what you are trying to convey. Examples: He was tired because he was exercising so hard. This sentence emphasizes that he was tired because he was exercising at that exact moment. He was tired because he had been exercising so hard. This sentence emphasizes that he was tired because he had been exercising over a period of time. It is possible that he was still exercising at that moment OR that he had just finished. FUTURE PERFECT TENSE

In English, the tense is formed thus: subject + I shall, + have + past participle will shall have gone."

This is sometimes shortened with the contraction of 'll for shall or will: I'll have been hit, you'll have been paid, etc. To make this form negative, one simply adds not between will or shall and have. For the contracted form, will not becomes won't and shall not becomes shan't: I won't have been speaking, you shan't have been speaking, etc. The English future perfect places the action relative only to the absolute future reference point but provides no information on location in time relative to the present : for example, If it rains tomorrow, we will have worked in vain yesterday.
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The time of perspective of the English future perfect can be shifted from the present to the past by replacing will with its past tense form would, thus effectively creating a "past of the future of the past" construction in which the indicated event or situation occurs before a time that occurs after the past time of perspective (but the event or situation must occur after the time of perspective): In 1982, I knew that by 1986 I would have already gone to prison. Unlike the English present perfect, the future perfect permits the use of a specific time marker for the action: I will have done it on the previous Tuesday is correct, while the present perfect formulation I have done it last Tuesday is incorrect.

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