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These sentences tell us that Sindbad has just completed a task in the recent past, They use the present perfect form of the verb., The present perfect tense takes the auxiliary verb has/have with the past partici, of the verb., For example,, The cow has eaten grass., • The boy has cooked his food., They have completed their homework., Rupa and Priya have won the ra, Fill in the blanks with the present perfect form of the verbs in the bracket, 1. Riti and Mainak ..ve..baked(bake) a chocolate cake., 2. Somebody .as.talen. (steal) the red bicycle., 3. This road .a takon. (take) many travellers to unknown la, 4. Sheila .hb.CheckeAcheck) all the answer sheets., 5. The watchmen ...h.aM.bloWn (blow) their whistles., have. tuone turn) brown overnight., 6. The pears, • past perfe, watd, Now, read these sentences from the story., • I called out to my companions, but they had, I had heard stories in the past about this valley of diamonds., gone., These sentences talk about actions that were completed at some point in time, past. They are in the past perfect tense., The first sentence says that Sindbad's friends had already gone before he calle, to them. So, one action happened before the other one. In such cases, we use, past perfect tense for the earlier action and the simple past tense for the action, takes place later., 98