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What is the past perfect?

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past perfect is a tense

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  • When the order of events is not followed , the past perfect tense is used to tell the correct order :
  • before going out for lunch , he had put on his coat .

  • The past perfect tense is used to express a completed action before some special event / action that we have in our mind :
  • By the time it began to snow, they had reached home .

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