A relic of the Latin pluperfect (in -aram, -eram), popularly confounded with the imperfect subjunctive.

The TENSES are nine, the Present, Imperfect, Perfect, Pluperfect, two Aorists, (1st and 2d, equivalent in sense,) and three Futures, (1st and 2d, equivalent to each other, and 3d, very rarely used;) they are distinguished by certain letters prefixed, inserted, or added to the stem or root of the verb.

The imperfect tense visited should therefore have been had visited, in the pluperfect tense, representing the action of visiting, not only as past, but also as prior to the time of returning.

The conjunctive adverb after makes one of the actions subsequent to the other, and gives to the visiting all the priority that is signified by the pluperfect tense.

Six times fifteen are ninety; and so many are the several phrases which now compose Murray's pluperfect tense of the subjunctive mood of the verb to strowa tense which most grammarians very properly reject as needless!

Perfect, If thou have loved; Pluperfect, If thou had loved; Future, If thou should or would love.

There are six tenses; the Present, the Imperfect, the Perfect, the Pluperfect, the First-future, and the Second-future.

" The Pluperfect tense is that which expresses what had taken place, at some past time mentioned: as, "I had seen him, when I met you.

pluperfect tense, when used conditionally, in stead of expressing what actually had taken place at a past time, almost always implies that the action thus supposed never was performed; on the contrary, if the supposition be made in a negative form, it suggests that the event had occurred: as, "Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

IMPERFECT TENSE; BUT SIGN OF THE INDICATIVE PLUPERFECT.

16.The form of the indicative pluperfect is sometimes used in lieu of the potential pluperfect; as, "If all the world could have seen it, the wo had been universal."Shakspeare.

16.The form of the indicative pluperfect is sometimes used in lieu of the potential pluperfect; as, "If all the world could have seen it, the wo had been universal."Shakspeare.

17.With an adverb of comparison or preference, as better, rather, best, as lief, or as lieve, the auxiliary had seems sometimes to be used before the infinitive to form the potential imperfect or pluperfect: as, "He that loses by getting, had better lose than get.

What is the pluperfect tense?

But the learner should observe that most of our prepositions may take the imperfect participle for their object, and some, the pluperfect, or preperfect; as, "On opening the trial they accused him of having defrauded them.

The perfect and pluperfect tenses, being past, cannot express what is really contingent or uncertain; and since, in expressing conditionally what may or may not happen, we use the subjunctive present as embracing the future indefinitely, there is no need of any formal futures for this mood.

The Present, the Imperfect, the Perfect, the Pluperfect, the Future, and the Future Perfect."Ib..

"The imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, and the first-future tense, of this mood, are conjugated like the same tenses of the indicative."Kirkham bettered.

"Verbs have six tenses; the present, the imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, the first-future, and the second-future.

"The potential mood has four tenses; viz., the present, the imperfect, the perfect, and the pluperfect.

Place or position of the different parts of speech, see Article, Noun, Adjective, &c. Pleonasm, defined, Pleonasm, when allowable with respect to a pron., in what instances impressive and elegant; when, the vice of ill writing, occurs sundry times in the Bible, Pluperfect tense, defined, Pluperf.

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I say, "The Pluperfect Tense is that which expresses what had taken place at some past time mentioned: as, 'I had seen him, when I met you.'"

Murray says, "The Pluperfect Tense represents a thing not only as past, but also as prior to some other point of time specified in the sentence: as, I had finished my letter before he arrived."

" The perfect and pluperfect subjunctives are of course formed by means of the subjunctive present and past tenses of "have.