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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
The Perfect tense
Hi,
I'm currently studying up on tenses and I'm doing an exercise in my book whereby I need to state whether the sentence does or does not use the perfect tense. I'm a little stuck with the following sentence:
"I have a dog called Frank"
My understanding is that to identify the perfect tense I should be looking for the auxiliary verb 'have' and the past participle of the main verb, in this case 'to call'.
Can I therefore conclude that this is the perfect tense? I would be more confident if the sentence simply read "I have called Frank", but the separation between the auxiliary and the main verb has confused me.
I'm currently studying up on tenses and I'm doing an exercise in my book whereby I need to state whether the sentence does or does not use the perfect tense. I'm a little stuck with the following sentence:
"I have a dog called Frank"
My understanding is that to identify the perfect tense I should be looking for the auxiliary verb 'have' and the past participle of the main verb, in this case 'to call'.
Can I therefore conclude that this is the perfect tense? I would be more confident if the sentence simply read "I have called Frank", but the separation between the auxiliary and the main verb has confused me.
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Hi, "I have a dog called Frank" it's not in the present perfect. Here, "called Frank" modifies "dog"; it tells you something more about it.
- Hi, "I have a dog called Frank" it's not in the present perfect.
- Here, "called Frank" modifies "dog"; it tells you something more about it.
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Hi,
"I have a dog called Frank" it's not in the present perfect.
Here, "called Frank" modifies "dog"; it tells you something more about it.
"I have a dog called Frank" it's not in the present perfect.
Here, "called Frank" modifies "dog"; it tells you something more about it.
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Great, thank you.
So am I right in thinking that "I have called Frank" would be the present perfect tense?
So am I right in thinking that "I have called Frank" would be the present perfect tense?
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Hi,
AnonymousSo am I right in thinking that "I have called Frank" would be the present perfect tense?Yes, you're right.
Anonymous... but the separation between the auxiliary and the main verb has confused me.Be careful, sometimes the verb "have" and the past participle (or "had" and the past participle, if we are tal
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