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1. Perfect Tense

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   Latin and Romance Languages
   Latin employed a synthetic structure for its Perfect tense, which generally functioned as the simple narrative past (equivalent to the English simple past or the Romance passé simple). As Latin evolved into the Romance languages, this synthetic form was gradually replaced by constructions involving the auxiliary habere ('to have') to express the modern Romance Perfect (e.g., […