The present perfect is a verb tense used for past actions that are related to or continue into the present; it uses the auxiliary verbs 'has' or 'have', e.g. She has lived in the town all her life. They have disappeared into nowhere. The past perfect is a verb tense used to talk about something that happened before something else that is also Country: Spain. School subject: English as a Second Language (ESL) (1061958) Main content: Present perfect (2013197) Present perfect simple. Coba dilihat dari time reference-nya. Present perfect tense time reference-nya present ~ terjadi sebelum sekarang, sedangkan past perfect tense time-reference-nya past ~ terjadi sebelum suatu titik waktu di masa lampau. Contoh: *She has eaten her breakfast. ~ sudah selesai sebelum sekarang (present perfect tense) Depending on what the author means to say, these sentences could be changed to past continuous tense (eg "I have been reading A Tale of Two Cities for a month"), or the time phrases could be changed (eg "I've read A Tale of Two Cities in a month"). Some of the verbs, in present perfect tense, don't imply that the action is completed. Just as the perfect tense can sometimes describe a situation that no longer exists at the present time (e.g. fuit Īlium), so the pluperfect can describe a situation which no longer existed at a time in the past, as in the following example: flūmen, quod mediō oppidō flūxerat, extrā frequentia tēctīs loca praeterfluēbat (Curtius) Vay Tiền Nhanh Ggads.

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