Please work through the following presentation to learn about the perfect tense.

Perfect Tense 1

Adverbs of time tell us when, how long or how often something happens. You already encountered a number of these adverbs of time, for example:

• regarding a point in time or a period of time: heute, morgen, gestern, später, zuerst, dann, danach, etc.
• regarding frequency: immer, meistens, oft, manchmal, selten, nie; montags (jeden Montag), vormittags (jeden Vormittag), etc.

The use of these adverbs of time structures a text chronologically and might make it easier to follow. It also adds cohesiveness to a text and allows you to use a different word order.