1. Conjugating verbs and demystifying the past perfect tense was not Matthiesen's style. 2. Things further in the past are usually described in the past perfect tense . 3. Most translations have rendered this either into simple past tense or present perfect tense . 4. Gang has gleefully pointed out, in the present perfect tense . 5. I have heard something about British preferring present perfect tense over simple past tense. 6. Mianaic, like the other South Arabian languages, forms the Perfect tense by adding suffixes. 7. Some difficulty surrounds the use of the verb'fuit', generally taken to indicate the perfect tense . 8. As the first person singular in the perfect tense , indicative active, " veni " is irregular. 9. However, for narrating a series of events of yesterday or earlier, the Remote Perfect tense is used. 10. In Le Monde, on the contrary, I find mainly ( but not exclusively ) the perfect tense .
