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Download full textDubois, Betty Lou – 1974
This paper explores the meanings and distribution of the perfect in contemporary American English prose, with reference to problems encountered in teaching English as a second language. The English perfect comprises forms traditionally called present perfect tense, past perfect tense, and perfects of the infinitive, gerund and present participle.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Instruction, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
