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1. Perfect Tense

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   The term derives from the Latin tempus perfectum, literally "completed time" or "perfected time." In classical grammatical theory, the Perfect Tense was often conflated with the simple past (or Praeteritum). However, modern linguistic analysis, particularly post-Schleicherian structuralism, emphasizes that the Perfect is fundamentally aspectual. It focuses on the result rather than the process of the action.
   In many languages, the structural integrity of the Perfect Tense relie…