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The Present Perfect is hardly ever used in the following cases.

  1. Я не слышал вашего вопроса. I did not hear your question.

Мне сказали, что Мэри в Москве. I am told that Mary is in Moscow, it. Я слышал, что Мэри в Москве. I hear that Mary is in Moscow, (“to

hear” is not a verb of sense percep­tion here, it means “the rumour reached me”)

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В. Л. Каушанская и др.

With the verb “to forget” expressing a certain fact both the Present Indefinite and the Present Perfect can be used.

  1. Я забыл, где он живет. I forget (have forgotten) where he lives.

  2. Я забыл название книги. I forget (have forgotten) the title of

the book.

Compare: I have forgotten to ring her up (a certain action).

§ 19. The Past Indefinite and the Present Perfect.

An action expressed by the Past Indefinite belongs exclusively to the sphere of the past, while the Present Perfect shows that a past occurrence is connected with the present time.

She is not well and has changed very much of late.

She changed very much a great many years ago. (Dickens)

The Present Perfect is never used with such adverbial modi­fiers of the past time as yesterday, the other day, last week, etc. With such adverbial modifiers as to-day, this week, etc. both the Present Perfect and the Past Indefinite are used. The tenses are used according to the principle mentioned above (§ 4, § 18).

I have told you three times this week that she is coming home for a year. (Dreiser)

I want your sister, the woman who gave me' money to-day. (Dickens)

With the adverb just the Present Perfect is used.

I have just hired a new pianist from St. Joe a Negro. (Dreiser) With the expression just now the Past Indefinite is used.

I saw you come in just now. (Dreiser)

Just now is less frequent than just.

THE PAST PERFECT § 20. The formation of the Past Perfect.

  1. The Past Perfect is formed by means of the~ Past Indefinite of the auxiliary verb to have and Participle II of the notional verb.

  2. In the interrogative form the auxiliary verb is placed before the subject.

In the negative form the negative particle not is placed after the auxiliary verb.

A

Interrogative

Had I worked? Had lie worked? Had she worked? Had we worked? Had you worked?

Negative

I had not worked He had not worked She had not worked We had not worked You had not worked

ffirmative

I

Had they worked? They had not worked

had worked He had worked She had worked We had worked You had worked They had worked

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  1. The contracted affirmative forms are:

I’d written We’d written

The contracted negative forms are:

  1. hadn’t written We hadn’t written

  1. T

    Forms are:

    he negative-interrogative

J Had he not written?

( Hadn’t he written?

( Had you not written?

\ Hadn’t you written?

§ 21. The use of the Past Perfect.

  1. The Past Perfect denotes an action completed before a cer­tain moment in the past. The moment may be indicated by another past action expressed by a verb in the Past Indefinite or by an adverbial phrase.

They had walked only a few steps when a second group of tanks drew up on the side road. (Heytn)

After she had cried out, she felt easier. (Heym)

Fortunately the rain had stopped before we started. (Bennett)

By this time Cowperwood has written Aileen under no circum­stances to try to see him. (Dreiser)

The clock had not struck when he reached Gray’s Inn. (Dickens)

The definite moment can be understood from the situation.

The Squire had laid down his knife and fork, and was staring

at his son in amazement. (Eliot)

The definite moment need not necessarily be expressed in the same sentence as the action expressed by the Past Perfect.

Everybody noticed how sad she was tfle whole evening. She had got an unpleasant letter. (Collins)

The Past Perfect is used with the conjunctions hardly... when, scarcely... when, no sooner... than.

They had no sooner arrived at this point than a most violent and startling knocking was heard. (Jerome)

Nell had scarcely settled herself on a little heap of straw in the corner when she fell asleep. (Dickens)

For the sake of emphasis the word order may be inverted

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o sooner had she laid herself down than she heard the pro­longed trill of the front-door bell. (Bennett)

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The Past Perfect is frequently used with the adverbs just, al­ready, yet.

Elsie, who had not yet assumed the white cap, was sweeping the stairs. (Bennett)