Present perfect and past simple

Present perfect and past simple

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<span style="color: #1e1e1e; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 25px;">Both present perfect and past perfect talk about something that happened before a point in time (reference point).</span>

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