noun
- plural of pluperfect; verb forms or tenses that express action completed before a past point in time
Usage: grammar
Examples
- The students struggled to identify the pluperfects in the passage.
- She had already mastered the use of pluperfects before taking the advanced grammar course.
- The teacher explained that pluperfects show actions completed before other past actions.
- In the sentence ‘He had left before I arrived,’ ‘had left’ is one of the pluperfects.
- The grammar book contained exercises on forming pluperfects correctly.
- Many languages have pluperfects to express past-before-past relationships.