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the pluperfect tense
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The second of these, equivalent to the pluperfect, is not used in the modern language, being considered archaic and/or grammatically incorrect.
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Here, the pluperfect indicative is used.
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There are 4 tenses (present, past, pluperfect, and future), 3 moods (indicative, imperative, and conditional) and 2 voices (active and passive).
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However, the pluperfect is losing ground to the compound forms.
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In addition, there were also three tenses that made use of auxiliary verbs: perfect, pluperfect, and future, all much less frequently used than in the modern language.
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Instead, the pluperfect, like the preterite, is expressed using the perfect.
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Three grammatical aspects are distinguishable: neutral, perfect and pluperfect.
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That's when their pluperfect dream world dissipates and disintegrates, and reality rears its pointy head.
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It is called the past subjunctive when referring counterfactually to the present, and is called the pluperfect subjunctive when referring counterfactually to the past.
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This involves a great deal of the pluperfect, and some rather clunky imagined thoughts.
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