The most common use of the perfect infinitive is to say ‘after having done’ something. Après avoir fait mes devoirs, j’ai regardé la télé. – After having done/After doing my homework, I watched TV.
TWO important grammatical forms that I don’t recall having ever taken up in this column are the perfect infinitive and the perfect gerund. I was asked about their usage sometime in 2011 but having ...
After taking up the perfect gerund in last week’s column, we’ll now take up the perfect infinitive. As with the perfect gerund, we must make clear in our mind that the qualifying word “perfect” in the ...
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