| 1. | Conjugating verbs and demystifying the past perfect tense was not Matthiesen's style.
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| 2. | Things further in the past are usually described in the past perfect tense.
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| 3. | Most translations have rendered this either into simple past tense or present perfect tense.
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| 4. | Gang has gleefully pointed out, in the present perfect tense.
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| 5. | I have heard something about British preferring present perfect tense over simple past tense.
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| 6. | Mianaic, like the other South Arabian languages, forms the Perfect tense by adding suffixes.
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| 7. | Some difficulty surrounds the use of the verb'fuit', generally taken to indicate the perfect tense.
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| 8. | As the first person singular in the perfect tense, indicative active, " veni " is irregular.
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| 9. | However, for narrating a series of events of yesterday or earlier, the Remote Perfect tense is used.
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| 10. | In Le Monde, on the contrary, I find mainly ( but not exclusively ) the perfect tense.
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