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Danil Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Compound tenses

Anyone can explain me please, what i should to know, for understanding this tenses?

I was reccomended to learn minimum 4 of them.. Can you give me example?
Kind Regards
Danil
  

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The definitions vary somewhat. One says that a compound tense combines an auxiliary or helping verb with a participle (present or past) of the main verb: is eating has eaten will eat could eat Another definition expands it to verb phrases of various kinds: be going to ought to have to

— Mister Micawber

  • The definitions vary somewhat.
  • One says that a compound tense combines an auxiliary or helping verb with a participle (present or past) of the main verb: is eating has eaten will eat could eat Another definition expands it to verb phrases of various kinds: be going to ought to have to
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The definitions vary somewhat.

One says that a compound tense combines an auxiliary or helping verb with a participle (present or past) of the main verb:

is eating
has eaten
will eat
could eat

Another definition expands it to verb phrases of various kinds:

be going to
ought to
have to
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Dear, Mister Micawber, thank you.
It's hard to understand from the first time.
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