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Latest post Sat, Jun 27 2009 12:22 AM by Huevos. 1 replies.
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Anonymous  +  797004 Fri, 26 Jun 09 11:15 PM
So I'm a little confused about the future pefect tense. My Latin teacher explained it like this. I'm not sure if the tenses are the same in latin as in english but I'm trying to understand what it is in English grammar.



Pluperfect       perfect         future perfect

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                        Past                                               Present          Future


So future perfect is a completed action so it occurs before the present, so basically in the past. Am I understanding this correctly?


And pluperfect is before an already completed action right?
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Best answer by Huevos  +  797072 Sat, 27 Jun 09 12:22 AM
Perfect (past, present and future) is used when the state caused by an event prevails until the time of a second event. In the case of the present perfect the second event is always "now".


I had been vaccinated before I visited Africa.

I have been vaccinated for my visit to Africa.

I will have been vaccinated before I visit Africa.


With future perfect the first event occurs between the present and the second event.
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