perfect tense

Questions about perfect tense

What does perfect tense mean?

perfect tense means "a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect)".

What is another word for perfect tense?

Close synonyms include perfective, perfective tense, perfect. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is perfect tense a common word?

perfect tense is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.