Assertion: verb's action | /r/HasProperty | completed
Facets:
value: by a future time
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: For an action that was completed before the past time being referred to, the past perfect is used: We had sat down on the blanket when...
text: The perfect aspect is used to denote the circumstance of an action's being complete at a certain time.
text: It indicates an action that is to be completed sometime prior to a future time of perspective, or an ongoing action continuing up to a future time of perspective (compare uses of the present perfect above).
text: The present tense is made up of simple present / present simple (actions which happen regularly), present continuous / present progressive (actions which are taking place now) and present perfect (actions which are now completed).
text: Aspect shows whether the action or state is completed or not.
text: Past perfect sentences convey a sense that an action occurred in the past and was completed before a subsequent past action occurred.
text: Future perfect sentences convey a sense that an action will be completed at or by a future time.
text: Future perfect progressive sentences convey a sense that a continuing future action will be completed before another future event occurs.
text: They have a perfective sense, in that they refer to actions that are completed.