Pluperfect (Noun)
Meaning
A perfective tense used to express action completed in the past; "`I had finished' is an example of the past perfect".
Classification
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas.
Examples
- The sentence "I had eaten dinner before I went to the movies" is an example of the pluperfect tense.
- The use of the pluperfect in the sentence "They had already left by the time we arrived" emphasizes the completion of the action.
- The pluperfect tense in "She had studied for three hours before taking the exam" highlights the action's completion in the past.
- The phrase "We had been waiting for hours" is an example of the pluperfect tense used to express a past action that started and finished before another action.
- The sentence "He had written several books before he won the award" uses the pluperfect tense to show the completion of the action in the past.