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 PerfectTenses
Present Past Future
- refers tounfinished -refers to a finished action - We use the future perfect to say
actions, states or habits that
before a second point in the 'how long' for an action that starts
started in the past and past before and continues up to another
continue to the present. * When we arrived, the film action or time in the future. * When
* She's lived in London for had started. we get married, I'll have known
three years. - refers to an action started in Robert for four years.
- refers to actions or events - We use the future perfect with a
the past and continued up to
that happened sometime
Uses

future time word, (and often with 'by')

another action or time in the
during a person's life. to talk about an action that will finish
* We have never seen that past.
before a certain time in the future, but
film. * When he graduated, he had
we don't know exactly when.* By 10
- refers to a finished actionbeen in London for six years.
o'clock, I will have finished my
with a result in the present - refers to unreal or imaginary
homework. (= I will finish my
(focus on result). things in the past.* If I had
homework some time before 10, but
* I've lost my keys. known you were ill, I would
we don't know exactly when.)
have visited you.
+ S + have/has +V-ed/III form. S + had +V-ed/III form. S+will +have + V-ed/III form.
Forms

- S+have/has+ not + V-ed/III form. S+had+ not + V-ed/III form. S+will +not +have + V-ed/III form.
? Have/Has+ S+ V-ed/III form? Had+ S+ V-ed/III form? Will+S+ have + V-ed/III form?
Adverbs For, since, this week,just, Just, never, ever, already By 10 o’clock, when+present ,
already,yet, recently S+Future perfect
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