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perfect tense

In grammar, the form a verb takes to express action made perfect, that is, completed, in the past, present, or future.

The present perfect of to climb is ‘I have climbed’; the past perfect is ‘I had climbed’; the future perfect is ‘I shall have climbed’; the future perfect in the past (see future in the past) is ‘I should have climbed’.
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