Herb wrote:
I don’t doubt that this is honest inquiry on your part. It is, however, uninformed inquiry as well, and, as others have suggested, your inquiry would be much more successful if you took some time to study the area that you are researching. You might look, for example, at the sections on tense and aspect in Sidney Greenbaum’s Oxford English Grammar (OUP 1996). It’s a very thorough and readable reference grammar and not terribly expensive, about $50 for the hardback edition. Amazon has used copies at half that price. I think you’d find it useful.
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The Oxford English Grammar, by Sidney Greenbaum, c.1996, page 272.
5.28 Past Perfect
The past perfect (or pluperfect) is a combination of the past tense of the verb have (had or the contracted form 'd) with the perfect participle. It is used to refer to a situation in the past that came before another situation in the past. The past perfect represents either the past of the simple past or the past of the present perfect.
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Those who don't know what's the matter with this have their work cut out for themselves, don't they, Herb?
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