What is a compound tense?

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What is a compound tense?

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Answer 1 · 2016-05-12T20:24:55

Compound tense is a tense which uses auxiliary verb.

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Compound tense is a tense which uses auxiliary words, so English compound tenses are all tenses exept from Present Simple (I do), Past Simple (I did) and Future Simple (I will/shall do)

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