We form the perfect tenses by using the verb *to have* as an auxiliary verb and adding the past participle of the main verb. For example we form the present-perfect tense by using the present tense of have (has or have) and adding the past participle of the main verb.
Those helping verbs are named *auxiliary verbs* . And the common ones are to be, to have, and to do. They appear in the following forms:
To Be: am, is, are, was, were, being, been, will be
To Have: has, have, had, having, will have
To Do: does, do, did, will do
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The story ends upon the 5th year of the "apprenticeship," and so Malamud never states that Sobel marries Miriam. We must deduce that Feld will change his mind in the end and let Sobel marry his daughter.
Feld had been interested in only a material future for his daughter, and he had vested his hopes in Max, whom he thought the more socio-economically successful. But Miriam told her father that Max had no soul, and...
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