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CBE 3.02 | Dreamtime | Language focus: the present perfect tense

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Passing Down Dream Time Stories

There's quite a lot of parts to this present perfect. The story is that during the dream time there was nothing and the ancestor beings travelled across the land, creating the landscape as they went. However, dream time stories have been passed down through many generations. This is an action which is true in the past and is continuing in the present. If you want to know more about the structure of the passive, listen to Coffee Big English Season 2 Episode 1 - where we talk a lot about the passive.

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