Meaning Of The Word Past perfect

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past perfect
In grammar, the past perfect tenses of a verb are the ones used to talk about things that happened before a specific time. The simple past perfect tense uses 'had' and the past participle of the verb, as in 'She had seen him before'. It is sometimes calle

past perfect in American English
a tense indicating an action as completed or a state as having ended before a specified or implied time in the past; pluperfect

past perfect in British English
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: the past perfect tense

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