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1. Perfect Tense

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   The Perfect Tense is a grammatical aspect-tense category found across numerous language families [1], most notably within the Indo-European phylum. Morphologically, it typically signals a state or condition that currently exists as a direct result of a prior, completed action [2]. Unlike the simple past tense, which describes an event located solely in the past, the Perfect Tense binds the past event to the present temporal framework of the speaker or narrator.
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