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past perfect definition

past perfect

  1. a tense indicating an action as completed or a state as having ended before a specified or implied time in the past; pluperfect
  2. a verb form in this tense (Ex.: had gone)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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