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What's the difference between perfect and pluperfect forms of a verb?
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- Anonymous4 years agoFavorite Answer
Perfect uses 'have', plusperfect uses 'had'. Plusperfect tends to be further back in time.
I have eaten all of my vegetables.
I had eaten all of my vegetables before I was told they were out of date.
- MeganLv 54 years ago
Both present perfect and pluperfect talk about something that happened before a point in time (reference point).
In the present perfect, our reference point is the present. In the pluperfect, our reference point is in the past. Present perfect: HAVE / HAS + past participle & Pluperfect: HAD + past participle.
