User:Robbiemuffin/The tenses/The Absolute-Relative tenses
* note there is no future in the future tense. That is because no natural language has one. Internet memes die hard.
Future Perfect
editThe future perfect tense is used to describe an event that has not yet happened but which is expected or planned to happen before another stated occurrence.
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Past Perfect
editThe pluperfect tense (from Latin plus quam perfectum more than perfect), also called past perfect in English, is a perfective tense that exists in most Indo-European languages, used to refer to an event that has completed before another past action.
Language with a Past Perfect (by inflection) Galician |
Future in the Past
editRefers to a time located in the future, relative to a contextually determined temporal reference point that itself must be located in the past relative to the moment of utterance.
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Future Perfect in the Past
editExpresses a past action which is future with respect to a past action which itself is prior to another past action. An example might help: John left for the front; by the time he should return, the field would have been burnt to stubble.
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