Sentence examples for pluperfect from inspiring English sources

He was unmoved by repeated statements that this is the classic past perfect (or pluperfect) in English and is perfectly grammatical.Someone with the Amazon name Brad Johnston, who seems to be the same person, has reviewed 259 books on Amazon.

Sagesse longingly calls him plus-que-parfait (pluperfect), as if he might have been a whole soul in a past life.Enraged by the noise created by 15-year-old Sagesse and her teenage friends cavorting in the hotel swimming pool one night in the summer of 1989, grand-père Labasse blasts at them with his shotgun, wounding one of them.

Some Latin verb endings, such as that of the -r passive or of the future, have disappeared; others, such as the pluperfect indicative and subjunctive, have survived in a few languages with modified function.

For instance, the past indicative of the "present" (the so-called imperfect) is used for ongoing or repeated processes in the past, that of the aorist for completed processes in the past, and that of the "perfect" (the so-called pluperfect) for states in the past.

Slavic has almost no traces of the Indo-European old perfect tense but, from combinations of a participle (verb + suffix l + masculine, feminine, or neuter endings) and forms of 'to be,' created new perfect (and pluperfect) tenses.

"When a language has a range of tenses such as the perfect, the imperfect, the pluperfect, each of which makes other kinds of statement possible, why on earth not use them?" Pullman asked, adding that present-tense narration is a "wretched fad".

Nicolson's point was not that Agatha Christie is better than George Eliot but that readers who seek out mystery novels are looking to escape not from life but from literature, from the "pluperfect tenses of the psychical novel".

To speak of it required the pluperfect.

/ Pluperfect.

That latter issue is exacerbated by the fact that most of the narrative is written in a flat present tense, which becomes especially problematic when this present trips over perfect and pluperfects in flashbacks.

As the exhausted and bewildered audience filed out, a few stopped to buy the soloists' latest releases: "Blaubelt's Favorite Pluperfects" and "Blauntz: The Active Voice".