People’s Friendship University of Russia

Institute of Foreign Languages

Department of Foreign Languages in Theory and Practice

The Peculiarities of the Usage of the

Perfect Group Tenses in English and
Spanish Newspapers
Submitted by
Teplyakova Polina
301 LVM
The Objective

The objective of the research is to study the

Perfect Group Tenses of the English and the
Spanish languages, to determine the main reasons
for its usage; to compare the usage of the Perfect
Group Tenses in English and Spanish newspapers
The Subject and The Object

■ The subject is the ■ The object is the

peculiarities of the Perfect Group
usage of the Perfect Tenses of the
Group Tenses within English and the
Spanish and English Spanish languages
newspapers
The Relevance

The relevance of this course paper is currently related to the

development of languages. In the modern world, people often
try to simplify the language and avoid complex constructions
that are presented in the Perfect Group Tenses. It is
interesting to observe how the Perfect Group Tenses of
English and Spanish are expressed in newspapers.
The Perfect Group Tenses of the
English Language
■ We must hold the government’s feet to the fire on that promise. The virus has
shone a light on the facts of British life and death.
■ On Friday, a study carried out in Santa Clara, California by Stanford University
and released as a “pre-print” without peer review, found that 50 to 85 times
more people had been infected with the virus than official figures showed
■ The world's stocks of seafood will have collapsed by 2050 at present rates of
destruction by fishing, scientists said yesterday
■ This should have been stopped in China. It should have been stopped. But if we
didn’t do it, the minimum we would have lost is a million-two, a million-four,
million-five that’s the minimum. We would have lost probably higher, it’s
possible, higher than 2.2.
The Perfect Group Tenses of the Spanish Language

■ Este lunes, el West Texas Intermediate (WTI), de referencia en EEUU, se ha

situado por debajo de los 15 dólares por barril, en niveles de 1999, ante las
previsiones de caída de la demanda para los próximos meses por el impacto del
Covid-19.
■ El otro día fui a atender a una anciana que se había quedado viuda y llevaba 15
días con la caldera rota, sin agua caliente ni calefacción, y nadie la ayudaba.
■ La alcaldesa de Gijón, Ana González, ha mostrado su confianza este martes de
que la celebración de la CometCon en la ciudad no se verá afectada por las
restricciones de contención del coronavirus, al argumentar que es en abril y ya
habrán subido las temperaturas.
The Usage of the Perfect Group Tenses in English The Usage of the Pefect Group Tenses in Spanish
Newspapers Newspapes
3%
7% 12%

17%

19%

72% 69%

Perfect Present Past Perfect

Future Perfect Future Perfect in the Past Pretérito Perfecto Pretérito Pluscuamperfecto Futuro Perfecto
The Perfect Group Tenses in English Newspapers The Perfect Group Tenses in Spanish Newspapers
according to the Area of Usage according to the Area of Usage

25%
27%
32%

46%

17%

9% 18%

13% 14%

Politics Economics Culture Social life Politics Economics Sport Culture Social life
Conclusion
The tenses of the Perfect Group are used in accordance with the
norms of English and Spanish grammars.
The Present Perfect Tense is more common in English newspaper
articles, and the Pretérito Perfecto Tense is more common in
Spanish articles.
The Perfect Group Tenses are found with about the same
frequency in both English and Spanish newspapers.
Thank you for your attention!