Usually means: Action completed before another action.
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General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. past perfect: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. past perfect, the past perfect: Merriam-Webster
  3. past perfect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. past perfect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. past perfect: Collins English Dictionary
  6. past perfect: Vocabulary.com
  7. past-perfect: Wordnik
  8. the past perfect: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. past perfect: Wiktionary
  10. past perfect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. past perfect: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. past perfect: Dictionary.com
  13. Past Perfect (novel), Past perfect (disambiguation), Past perfect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. past perfect: Rhymezone
  15. past perfect: FreeDictionary.org
  16. past perfect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. past perfect: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Past Perfect: Glossary of English Grammar Terms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (past perfect)

▸ noun:  A tense which describes actions that occurred before another action or event in the past; the pluperfect or the past anterior tense.

Similar:
pluperfect, past perfect tense, plusperfect, pluperfect tense, past perfect continuous, preterpluperfect, present perfect, preterite, preterperfect, preterite tense, more...

Opposite:
present tense, present perfect, simple past

Types:
had eaten, had drunk, had gone, had been, more...

Phrases:
past perfect tense, the past perfect, past perfect continuous, past perfect progressive, more...

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Similar:
pluperfect, past perfect tense, plusperfect, pluperfect tense, past perfect continuous, preterpluperfect, present perfect, preterite, preterperfect, preterite tense, more...

Opposite:
present tense, present perfect, simple past

Types:
had eaten, had drunk, had gone, had been, more...

Phrases:
past perfect tense, the past perfect, past perfect continuous, past perfect progressive, more...



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