It is hard to determine to what extent the thematic formation supplied a real pluperfect to the strong preterit. |
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The extent to which this grammatical form suggests a pluperfect is disputed among Hebrew grammarians. |
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You started with the present tense, you then went to the past tense and now you have gone to the pluperfect past tense. |
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He also fails to note our point that even without the pluperfect the story is perfectly consistent. |
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Even today when one speaks of common cultures, references are spoken of in the pluperfect tense for hinting at the South Mediterranean, as if creativity no longer existed on the opposite shore. |
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The Latin pluperfect was preserved in very early Old French as a past tense with a value similar to a preterite or imperfect. |
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The pluperfect and future perfect are relative tenses, referring to the past relative to a past time or relative to a future time. |
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In conjectural statements, the French often use the Future or the Conditional, instead of the Perfect or the Pluperfect used in English. |
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