pluperfect tenses

A form of pluperfect tense — Tense of a verb used when referring to something that happened before a past setting or the imperfect; formed in English by adding had before the past participle of a verb, or by adding had been before the present participle of the verb.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of pluperfect tense
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