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- Perfect_(grammar) abstract "The perfect tense or aspect is a verb form that indicates that an action or circumstance occurred earlier than the time under consideration, often focusing attention on the resulting state rather than on the occurrence itself. An example of a perfect construction is I have made dinner: although this gives information about a prior action (my making the dinner), the focus is likely to be on the present consequences of that action (the fact that the dinner is now ready). The word perfect in this sense means \"completed\" (from Latin perfectum, which is the perfect passive participle of the verb perficere \"to complete\").In traditional grammar, particularly with regard to Latin and Ancient Greek, the perfect is a particular conjugated verb form, traditionally considered to be one of the tenses. In modern analysis it is seen as combining the expression of tense (time reference) with aspectual information. The Greek perfect contrasted with the aorist and the imperfect, and thus referred to completed events with present consequences like the English \"have/has (done something)\". The Latin perfect contrasted only with the imperfect (used for past incomplete actions or states), and was thus used to mean both \"have/has done something\" and \"did something\" (the preterite use). Other related forms are the pluperfect, denoting an event prior to a past time of reference, and the future perfect, for an event prior to a future time of reference.In modern grammars, particularly of English, perfect denotes an aspect independent of tense – the form corresponding to the traditional perfect (\"I have done\") is then called the present perfect, while that corresponding to the pluperfect (\"I had done\") is called the past perfect. (There are also additional forms such as future perfect, conditional perfect, and so on). The formation of the perfect in English, using forms of an auxiliary verb (have) together with the past participle of the main verb, is paralleled in a number of other modern European languages.Perfect can be denoted by the glossing abbreviation PERF or PRF. It should not be confused with the perfective aspect, which refers to the viewing of an action as a single (but not necessarily prior) event. To avoid confusion with the perfective, the perfect is occasionally called the retrospective (RET).".
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