If you think that the Cantonese words jor ( ), the Mandarin le ( ) or the Malay sudah means ‘already’, then you may have to retune your sense of English tenses!
Many readers may be wondering, why we use the terms Simple Past, Present Perfect and Past Perfect to describe tenses.
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