past perfect
noun Grammar.
Origin of past perfect
First recorded in 1885–90
Words nearby past perfect
past life therapy,
past master,
past mistress,
past one's prime,
past participle,
past perfect,
past progressive,
pasta,
paste,
paste mold,
paste-on
Example sentences from the Web for past perfect
She is just past-perfect as a chaperone and she said that she thought a party of four girls would be ideal.
Meg of Mystery Mountain |Grace May North
British Dictionary definitions for past perfect
past perfect
/ grammar /
adjective
denoting a tense of verbs used in relating past events where the action had already occurred at the time of the action of a main verb that is itself in a past tense. In English this is a compound tense formed with had plus the past participle
noun
- the past perfect tense
- a verb in this tense