Pluperfect - Wikipedia In English grammar, the pluperfect (e g "had written") is now usually called the past perfect, since it combines past tense with perfect aspect (The same term is sometimes used in relation to the grammar of other languages ) English also has a past perfect progressive (or past perfect continuous) form: "had been writing"
Pluperfect Tense | Department of Classics The pluperfect tense relates action that is "extra perfect" (plu-, sort of like "plus"); i e action that is more than complete
pluperfect - Wiktionary, the free dictionary pluperfect (comparative more pluperfect, superlative most pluperfect) More than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal (grammar) Pertaining to action completed before another action or event in the past, past perfect
PLUPERFECT definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary In grammar, the pluperfect is the tense used to talk about things that happened before a specific time It uses 'had' and the past participle of the verb, as in 'She had seen him before'
Pluperfect - definition of pluperfect by The Free Dictionary 1 Of or being a verb tense used to express action completed before a specified or implied past time 2 More than perfect; supremely accomplished; ideal: "He has won a reputation as [a] pluperfect bureaucrat" (New York Times)