past perfect tense

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Noun past perfect tense has 1 sense

past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect, pluferfect tense - a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past; "`I had finished' is an example of the past perfect"
--₁ is a kind of perfective, perfective tense, perfect, perfect tense

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Past Perfect Tense

Description

The Past Perfect Tense is a grammatical form used to express an action that occurred before another action in the past. It is constructed by using the auxiliary verb "had" followed by the past participle of the main verb. The Past Perfect Tense emphasizes the sequence of events in the past.

Sample Sentences

She had already finished her homework when her friends arrived at her house.
By the time I reached the station, the train had already left.
They had eaten dinner before the movie started.

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