Definitions of perfect tense
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a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)synonyms: perfect, perfective, perfective tensetypes:present perfect, present perfect tensea perfective tense used to express action completed in the presentpast perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect, pluperfect tensea perfective tense used to express action completed in the pastfuture perfect, future perfect tensea perfective tense used to describe action that will be completed in the futuretype of:tensea grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
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