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| attention is directed mainly to a past event as fully completed.
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| Attention is directed mainly to the continuing result of the past event.
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The perfect denotes completed events which occured repeatedly at successive intervals in the past, the recurring instances having established a certain result.
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| The perfect describes a comleted past event in an unsually vivid and realistic manner, the result of which the speaker concevies himself to be witnessing. |
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| the perfect denotes what customarily and generally happens; (the gnomic present expresses linear action, the gnomic aorist punctiliar action, and the gnomic perfect expresses both of these together.) |
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| This graphically describes a future event which, when it does occur, will have a result that continues to exist. |
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