| 单词 | pluperfect tense |
| 释义 | pluperfect tense (once / 288276 pages) n WORD FAMILY pluperfect tense: pluperfect tenses USAGE EXAMPLESWe needed the pluperfect tense: “But even before that, relations … had been tense.” New York Times(Jun 03, 2014) The Pluperfect tense is that which expresses what had taken place, at some past time mentioned: as, "I had seen him, when I met you." Brown, Goold, The Grammar of English Grammars(2010) There would be no doubt on this point, were it not for the pluperfect tense, decreverat. Watson, John Selby, Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurg...(2010) n a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past Syn|Hyper past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect perfect, perfect tense, perfective, perfective tense a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) |
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