Perfect Verb Tenses

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  This grammar lesson is a continuation of our previous grammar

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  lesson, which was about the three main types of verb

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  tenses. Andi, I will be reviewing that briefly in this

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  video and then I will move on to explaining what

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  the perfect verb tense is.

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  And then I will go over some practice to make

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  sure that the concept is clear.

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  So just to do a quick recap when a verb

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  is using a sentence that has a tense of verb

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  tense shows when the action of the verb takes place

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  and the three simple tenses are past, present and future.

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  All right, past, present and future president is happening now

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  passed already happened and future action will happen in the

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  future. So this is a simple types of tenses.

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  In today's lesson, we're going to talk about the perfect

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  types of tenses.

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  So the perfect tenses are present perfect past, perfect and

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  future perfect.

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  Let's take a look here.

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  The tense of a verb shows the time of inaction.

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  The perfect tense describes an action that Waas or will

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  be completed at a certain time.

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  In perfect tenses.

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  The helping verb changes tense.

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  Okay, so remember we talked about helping verbs like had

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  or have the chart lists the perfect tenses.

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  So for the present, Perfect, it's an action that began

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  in the past and continues until now.

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  So to make present perfect use have plus the past

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  participle. So I have invited my friends to the party.

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  It's something that happened in the past but is continuing

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  until the present so have invited past.

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  Perfect is an action that began in the past and

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  ended so had, plus the past participle I had invited

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  my friends to the party had invited means it happened

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  in the past and it's over now.

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  That's what makes it past perfect future.

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  Perfect is an action that began in the past and

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  completed in the future.

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  So to create a future perfect you use will have

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  plus the past participle.

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  So by tonight I will have invited everyone.

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  All right, let's take a look at some more explanation.

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  Like we said.

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  Present perfect Tense began in the past and continues to

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  the present.

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  Began in the past and ended in the past is

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  past perfect tense.

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  The president, perfect tense is formed by using, have or

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  has with the past participle.

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  Here's the example.

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  I have lived with my cats since I was a

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  baby, but past perfect likely, said a past action that

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  ended before another past action began.

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  So let's take a look here.

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  The past perfect tense is formed, like we said by

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  using had with the past participle.

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  Here's the example My family had rescued another cat.

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  So whenever you see the word had before a past

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  tense word, like had rescued, you know that's the past.

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  Perfect, tense future.

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  Perfect is a future action or condition that will have

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  ended before another begins here.

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  To create this you use will have with the past

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  participle. We will have cared for Sophie for 12 years.

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  Whenever you see will have a past tense verb or

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  past tense participle.

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  You know that's the future.

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  Perfect. Tense.

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  Okay, let's take a look at some practice Here we

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  are being asked to underline the perfect tenses in the

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  sentences and then right, what tense they are.

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  So the example that we were given was Suzie had

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  hoped to win.

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  Last week's race had hoped is the verb, and it

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  is in past perfect tense.

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  We know that because of had number two.

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  Number one.

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  Sorry, in our questions, have you heard of the lost

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  city of Atlantis?

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  We underline, Have heard.

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  That's the verb.

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  And it is in present, perfect.

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  Because of have we know that Number two?

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  I had not thought about it for years.

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  So had thought.

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  We have the word had there, so we know it's

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  past perfect number three.

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  Soon I will have read almost everything on the subject

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  here we have have in the past tense, which means

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  that its future present because of the will, will have

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  read so its future.

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  Number four.

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  They say that Atlantis had been a revival of Athens.

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  Is this past perfect?

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  Number five?

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  There have been many references to the strange place in

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  minutes. This is present perfect, so started in the past,

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  continuing until now, number six Perhaps Atlantis had sunk during

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  an earthquake, a past action that already finished past perfect

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  number seven.

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  Since then, many adventures and scholars have looked for it,

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  have looked so we know that's present because of have

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  by now they will have searched both seas and oceans

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  because of will and have we know its future perfect

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  Number nine.

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  They will have discovered many lost cities in the process

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  again will have in the past.

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  Tense verb means its future perfect.

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  And number 10 no one has ever found evidence off

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  Atlantis is existence.

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  So here, this is still present.

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  Perfect. Remember, we said it could be have or has

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  it depending on if the subject is singular or plural?

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  Okay, that is all for today's practice in our virtual

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  class, we will be completing even more activities related to

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  Han Academy and more practice to make sure that you

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  know the differences between the different perfect tenses of verbs.