perfect tense
noun
the present perfect.
perfect tenses
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pluralof perfect tense.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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This is inflected regularly in the perfect tenses.
From New Latin Grammar by Charles E. (Charles Edwin) Bennett
It may also be represented as finished in present or past or future time by means of the present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect tenses.
From An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell
A, be, for, ge, are often indifferently prefixed to verbs, especially to perfect tenses and perfect participles, as well as to verbal nouns.—BOSWORTH.
From New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words by William Swinton
It is used only in the present and perfect tenses.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
The present participle is used for the formation of the progressive conjugation; the past participle, for the formation of the compound or perfect tenses.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Stratton D. Brooks
