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present perfect definition

present perfect

  1. a tense indicating an action as completed or a state as having ended at the time of speaking but not at any definite time in the past
  2. a verb form in this tense (Ex.: has gone)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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