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The perfect tenses are verb tenses showing actions completed at or before a specific time.

In English, there are three simple perfect tenses, formed with conjugations of the auxiliary verb have and a verb:

In addition to these, we can distinguish the three perfect progressive tenses:

Obviously, the convoluted passives of these tenses are rarely used.

See also: past tense, future tense, grammatical aspect.

Grammatical tenses

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