| 单词 | past perfect |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspast perfect past perfect adj. and n. Grammar (a) adj. designating a tense combining past time reference with the perfect aspect, pluperfect (see pluperfect adj. 1); (b) n. the past perfect tense, the pluperfect (pluperfect n.). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > tense > [adjective] > past > with specific aspect pluperfectc1450 preterite imperfectc1450 preterite perfect1522 preterimperfectc1525 preterperfectc1525 preterpluperfectc1525 plusquamperfect1644 pluterperfect1656 past perfect1868 1868 S. Kerl Common School Gram. Eng. Lang. 133 The subjunctive mood has three tenses: the present, the past, and the past-perfect. 1889 Academy 23 Nov. 343 The form ‘scripsi’, the traditional ‘past-perfect’, was now called ‘present perfect’; ‘scripseram’ was called past-perfect. 1989 Righting Words 3 15/1 Another..change that seems to be taking place in American English these days is the gradual abandonment of the past perfect (pluperfect) tense. < as lemmas |
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