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present perfect tense

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Noun1.present perfect tense - a perfective tense used to express action completed in the present; "`I have finished' is an example of the present perfect"
perfect, perfect tense, perfective, perfective tense - a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)


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MORE INFORMATION Keep in mind that APA Style says that you should always use past tense or present perfect tense when describing research that requires an in-text citation.
Then, I will concern myself with how the narratives of these narrators often alternatively rely on two types of diegetic modes--an autonomous diegesis with the simple past tense (SP), and a linked diegesis with the present perfect tense (PP).
 
 
 
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