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Tense matters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

David Crystal ,
Valerie Lambert ,
Bill Broughton  and
Frank Palmer
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Abstract

Tenses crop up in two ways in this issue, both inspired by readers' letters. The first referred to the use of the present perfect on both sides of the Atlantic, and DAVID CRYSTAL looks at that. The second is the puzzling ‘plupluperfect’, and VALERIE LAMBERT, BILL BROUGHTON and FRANK PALMER look at that.

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English Today , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , April 1986 , pp. 28 - 30
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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