Perfect Verb Forms Progressive 2 W.6.1.B

The Perfect and Progressive Verb Forms Both use helping verbs.

The Perfect Verb Form The perfect verb form uses the helping verb to have. I have finished eating my vegetables. I had watched this program before they replaced the main actress. We will have finished the research before preparing the argument.

The Perfect Verb Form The perfect verb form uses the helping verb to have. I have finished eating my vegetables. The helping verb, have, not the main verb illustrates the tense. HAVE finished = present perfect

I have finished eating my vegetables. The Perfect Verb Form I have finished eating my vegetables. Subject Simple predicate Direct object vegetables ea ting I have finished my What have I finished? eating my vegetables

The Perfect Verb Form The perfect verb form uses the helping verb to have. I had watched this program before they replaced the main actress. The helping verb, have, not the main verb illustrates the tense. HAD finished = past perfect

I had watched this program before they replaced the main actress. The Perfect Verb Form I had watched this program before they replaced the main actress. I had watched program this - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - before they replaced actress the main

The Perfect Verb Form The perfect verb form uses the helping verb to have. We will have finished the research before preparing the argument. The helping verb, have, not the main verb illustrates the tense. will HAVE finished = future perfect

We will have finished the research before preparing the argument. The Perfect Verb Form We will have finished the research before preparing the argument. Phrase What will we have finished? When were we preparing? We will have finished research prep the What were we preparing? aring argument before the

Verbs in the perfect tense are already done … or perfect. The Perfect Verb Form Verbs in the perfect tense are already done … or perfect.