pluperfects

pluperfects
'pluː'pɜrfɪkts /-'pɜːf- n. grammatical tense which places one past action in relation to another past action (Ex: When you arrived, I had already left. - "I had left" = pluperfect tense)

English contemporary dictionary. 2014.

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  • Pluperfect — The pluperfect (from Latin plus quam perfectum more than perfect), also called past perfect in English, is a grammatical combination of past tense with the perfect, itself a combination of tense and aspect, that exists in most Indo European… …   Wikipedia

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