THE three perfect tenses in English — the present perfect, the past perfect, and the future perfect — capture the idea that one event or occurrence happened or happens before another time or event in ...

It's a tense we use to talk about things that happened in the very recent past, or that have a connection to now. Common ...

Linguistics professor John O’Regan on history written in the present tense, and Simon Allen on other documentary annoyances Adrian Chiles’s article concerning the use of the present tense in ...

The concept of current relevance has been referred to in many discussions of the usage of the present perfect; however it is a difficult idea to teach because it deals with factors outside the present ...

What do John Updike's Rabbit, Run, Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat, Malcolm Bradbury's The History Man and Margaret Atwood's Surfacing have in common? They are all modern classics, and they are all ...