past perfect

Noun

  • I had gotten angry with them once more. or I had got angry with them once more.
  • She had driven herself to work, where she was congratulated on her promotion.
  • He only started learning to play guitar after he had heard Hendrix play.
  • They had changed by the end of the war.
  • Although he normally seemed friendly and harmless, he had carried a pistol with him during many of the long journeys.
  • A tense which represents actions that occurred before other actions in the past; the past anterior tense.

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