Sabtu, 04 Februari 2012

Perfect Tense

Perfect tense
Present Perfect Tense is used for describing a past action’s effect on the present: He has arrived. Now he is here. This holds true for events that have just been secluded as well as for events that have not yet occurred.
Present perfect is formed by combining have/has with the main verb’s past participle form:
I have arrived.
 A negation is produced by inserting not after have/has:
I have not arrived.

Questions in present perfect are formulated by starting a sentence with have/has:
Has she arrived?
Past Perfect Tense is a kind of tense that is used to describe an action or an event that started in a certain time in the past and completed or finished  till  certain time in the past too; or past perfect tense is used to express an action or an event that had happened before the other event or action happened
The pattern :
(+) Subject + had+verb III+cmplement
(-) Subject + had not+ver III+complement
(?) Had + subject +verb III+complement
Example :
(+) We had eaten before they came
(-) They had not eaten before we came
(?) Had they eaten before we came?
Adverbs used : from 1998 to 1999, once, twice, etc.
Future perfect tense is used to talk about actions that will be finished before some point in the future. Use this tense to express situations that will last for a specified period of time at a definite moments in the future. The last use is to express certainly that an action was completed.