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Read the sentence. All surviving family members have experienced the devastations of war. Is the participle in this sentence present, past, or perfect? perfect past present

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Its past, "have experienced" meaning they've already been through it
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Past- experienced is past (first, it ends with -ed) and this happened after the author wrote this, and if it was present it would say are experiencing and if it is future it would say will experience
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