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Past perfect Moderate

Past perfect has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past

"`I had finished' is an example of the past perfect"

2

A tense which represents actions that occurred before other actions in the past; the past anterior tense.

See Also
past anterior past perfect continuous tense
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
perfective
Rhyming Words
ect dect fect tect lect hect sect exect elect spect eject object inject adject advect expect resect adlect detect aspect
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