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§ 173. —The general meaning of the Tenses has already been explained, § 57. It is most clearly seen in the leading Verbs of Principal sentences.

§ 174. Tenses which refer to the present or future are called Primary Tenses; those which refer to the past are called Secondary or Historic Tenses.

Primary: Present, Perfect Proper, Future, Future-Perfect.

Secondary: Perfect Aorist, Imperfect, Pluperfect.

§ 175. The following table represents the correspondence of the Latin and English Tenses:—

§ 176.

Besides the general use of the tenses, as explained in § 57, they have the following special developments in Latin.