The most common use of the perfect infinitive is to say ‘after having done’ something. Après avoir fait mes devoirs, j’ai regardé la télé. – After having done/After doing my homework, I watched TV.

After taking up the perfect gerund in last week’s column, we’ll now take up the perfect infinitive. As with the perfect gerund, we must make clear in our mind that the qualifying word “perfect” in the ...

Three weeks ago we discussed the perfect infinitive as the form “to have + the past participle (‘-ed’ form)” that works with a main verb to denote the following: ...