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How to use pluperfect in a sentence

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It is hard to determine to what extent the thematic formation supplied a real pluperfect to the strong preterit.
The extent to which this grammatical form suggests a pluperfect is disputed among Hebrew grammarians.
You started with the present tense, you then went to the past tense and now you have gone to the pluperfect past tense.
He also fails to note our point that even without the pluperfect the story is perfectly consistent.
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.
The Latin pluperfect was preserved in very early Old French as a past tense with a value similar to a preterite or imperfect.
The pluperfect and future perfect are relative tenses, referring to the past relative to a past time or relative to a future time.
In conjectural statements, the French often use the Future or the Conditional, instead of the Perfect or the Pluperfect used in English.
Examples from Classical Literature
The corresponding tenses are formed by adding pronominal suffixes to the weak, the strong, or the pluperfect participle.
Of all the vain wishes, the retroactive pluperfect are the vainest, and an antenatal wish is sublimely ridiculous.
So it was in this pluperfect esteem that Amory by and by came to bask, with Cosimo as her showman.
The pluperfect participle refers to something which happened a long time ago, and is used to form the past tense of narration.
The verbal forms in-ara and-iera were used then as now as the equivalent of the pluperfect or the preterit indicative.
We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.
It is a pluperfect or beyond perfect example of the defensive function implied in the creation mythos.
Roy's wagyu beef sliders, dressed in caramelized onions and chipotle aioli, are outstanding and come with pluperfect sweet potato fries.
I want to emphasize the pluperfect subjunctive and anterior future of integrating.
Among rats the chieftain is, of necessity, pluperfect master of defence.
Butcher and Lang translate it as a pluperfect, but surely Charybdis was in the act of sucking down the water when Ulysses arrived.
Anything to avoid the pluperfect, which the people cannot manage.
The force of the tense is here, however, rather perfect than pluperfect.
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