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past perfect
past perfect
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
- a verb in this tense
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of past perfect1
First recorded in 1885鈥90
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Mueller actually said, 鈥淚f we had had confidence鈥 鈥 an entirely correct and appropriate usage of the past perfect, an English tense hardly anyone uses in conversation and most people apparently cannot even hear.
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鈥淚鈥檝e only gone as far as the past perfect tense in my French book.鈥
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Soon we were flying past perfect rows of citrus trees, and that glorious scent was in the air.
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Has it reversed itself into the past perfect tense?
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Would we then have a present on our hands that was, at best, past perfect?
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