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单词 past perfect
释义

past perfect


noun Grammar.

pluperfect.

Origin of past perfect

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby past perfect

pastorate, pastorium, pastorship, pastose, past participle, past perfect, past progressive, pastrami, pastry, pastry blender, pastry brush
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Example sentences from the Web for past perfect

  • She is just past-perfect as a chaperone and she said that she thought a party of four girls would be ideal.

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British Dictionary definitions for past perfect

past perfect
/ grammar /

adjective

denoting a tense of verbs used in relating past events where the action had already occurred at the time of the action of a main verb that is itself in a past tense. In English this is a compound tense formed with had plus the past participle

noun

  1. the past perfect tense
  2. a verb in this tense
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