Analysis of the Present Perfect Tense in English and it’s Classification

Abstrak

The present perfect expresses completed action and it is formed with have or has and the past participle form of the main verb. The present perfect is often considered to be one of the most semantically complex structures in English because it expresses a variety of meanings and is related to “a situation set in some indefinite period that leads to the present” (Greenbaum and Nelson 2002:56). There has been a lot of research about the present perfect and its classification based on the meaning and/or context. It has been divided into several types (Comrie, 1976; Binnick, 1991; Iatridou, et al. 2001; Leech, 2004; Davydova, 2011, among others). This chapter is an overview of the research done by Comrie (1976), Iatridou et al. (2001), and Davydova (2011).

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