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pluferfect tense

 

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Noun pluferfect tense has 1 sense
  1. 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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Pluperfect Tense

Description:

The pluperfect tense is a verb form used to describe an action that has been completed before another past action. In English grammar, it is also called the past perfect tense.

Sense 1:

Part of Speech: Noun

Definition: The pluperfect tense expresses an action that was completed before another past action or point of time in the past.

Example: She had already eaten breakfast when I arrived.

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Sense 2:

Part of Speech: Adjective

Definition: Pertaining to or designating the pluperfect tense.

Example: The pluperfect verb form is used to express an action that happened before another action in the past.

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Sense 3:

Part of Speech: Verb (Rare: chiefly in literary usage)

Definition: To make pluperfect.

Example: The skilled writer pluperfected every sentence to create a mesmerizing story.

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