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past perfect

Past perfect is a tense that shows that an event happened prior to another event.

(noun)

An example of past perfect is saying that you drove once when you were twelve years old, but didn't get your license until you were sixteen.

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See past perfect in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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

See past perfect in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

See pluperfect.

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