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Modern approaches and methods in teaching english language. Teachers preferred such kinds of classical methods for teaching grammar as. In the syllabus from 1994 r94, it is said explicitly that linguistic competence and metalanguage should be taught to the learners. Companion volume to the core volume in this series. In fact, the structure of the present perfect tense is very simple.
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