a traditional term for a verb construction that uses more than one word to express a meaning related to time
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Compound tenses are made up of auxiliary verbs (or helping verbs) combined with other verb forms. The perfect, past perfect (also known as pluperfect), progressive, and (in some cases) future are forms traditionally regarded as compound tenses in English.
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