| 单词 | pluperfect |
| 例句 | The past-of-the-past is called the pluperfect, and it is formed with the auxiliary had, as in I had already eaten. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I suspect I am not the only one who reaches this pluperfect state.” ‘When Breath Becomes Air’: Young doctor’s last words of wisdom, hope 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Gable is pluperfect and gives a brilliant performance. How to watch every Best Picture winner from 1930 through 1939 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z It’s the pluperfect case of buy low, sell high. Lessons From Donald Sterling, Or How To Succeed In Business By Being A Terrible Person 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z In other words, it was the pluperfect Masters day — heaven to watch, hell to play. Boswell: Thomas Boswell: At Augusta National, ideal conditions are perfectly menacing to the field 2014-04-12T01:22:55Z “You are the pluperfect embodiment of someone who has dedicated her life to helping others,” he informed her. Caroline Kennedy brings Camelot to a confirmation hearing 2013-09-19T23:47:00Z Now that I'm in England you'd rather have me talk of the present than of pluperfect Italy. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Other forms which Greek has added to the original system are the pluperfect—in form a past of the perfect stem with aorist endings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z It was called a "private hotel" and unquestionably was one; deadly dull, but maintained in the most aristocratic way imaginable, like a formal, pluperfect, private house where one might chance to be invited to visit. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z In classical Sanskrit, for instance, of the modal aorist forms the precative and benedictive almost alone remain, while the pluperfect, of which Delbr�ck has found traces in the Veda, has wholly disappeared. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Don't you remember how complacent we were about our splendid isolation and our pluperfect pacifism and our being "too proud to fight" such a very short while ago? The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z As these tenses are precisely those in which the action must be completed, the perfect, pluperfect and future perfect, not, however, the imperfect and past aorist, such a connection is very suitable. The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb 2011-07-08T02:00:18.037Z Jodhpurs, eulogies, pluperfect, expostulate, these are not easy words to say and they are certainly not easy words to spell. VIDEO: Can you spell psychedelic? 2011-06-24T16:25:48Z In English the pluperfect, future, and future perfect tenses of the Subjunctive mood represent the Conditional mood in Esperanto. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z Very many of the Greek "genitives absolute," we remember, were to be rendered by quum, with a subjunctive pluperfect—an enormous mystery to us at the time. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z A pluperfect is similarly formed with the past tense of the auxiliary verb. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z For the imperfect and pluperfect the speaker can choose among a number of particles, all of which indicate past time. The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb 2011-07-08T02:00:18.037Z It was what Nancy called the pluperfect hour of the day; that is, of a rainy day. Nancy of Paradise Cottage It is used for the three tenses in English; the past, imperfect, and perfect; and sometimes for the pluperfect, if its use does not cause ambiguity. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z There are two present tenses, an imperfect, two perfects, a pluperfect, a present and a past frequentative, and three futures besides future perfect; there are also conjunctive and optative forms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" She had owned that she had loved him, and he had hardly realized the full force of the pluperfect. The Return of the Prodigal The imperfect and pluperfect alone have besides this a loosely attached particle. The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb 2011-07-08T02:00:18.037Z He was an old-timer in the vicinity and related the past, present, and pluperfect of all the residents on the route. Our Next-Door Neighbors He uses the pluperfect apparently as an equivalent of the preterite, and begins sentences with unde where unde has no meaning at all. Henry the Sixth A Reprint of John Blacman's Memoir with Translation and Notes Harmony is restored if you make out of the preterit a pluperfect, and read the passage thus:—When Noah was five hundred years old he had begotten Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood Nothing left to chance; all cut and dried; pluperfect. The Pagan Madonna But this is by no means universal, and in some tenses, as in the imperfect and pluperfect, is not found at all. A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature He can succeed in this without being godlike in wisdom or pluperfect in temper. The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 But there were other signs—a pillar leaning out of plumb, a bit of railing sagging down, a board loose at the corner—which seemed to speak of the pluperfect tense. Days Off And Other Digressions Among rats the chieftain is, of necessity, pluperfect master of defence. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character The preterit imperfect and pluperfect are made up of the present, preterit, and preterit participle together with the substantive verb, as will be seen below in the conjugations. Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language Verbs have six tenses, the present, the imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, the first and second future tenses. Sketch of Grammar of the Chippeway Languages To Which is Added a Vocabulary of some of the Most Common Words It is perfect; as Ellaline says, even pluperfect, in its contrast with the gray ruins, and the mellow, ancient house. Set in Silver Suppose twelve o'clock represents the present tense; nine would signify the perfect; any thing between nine and twelve would be imperfect; any thing beyond, pluperfect. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. A reformatory article by Mr. Queed would doubtless be scientifically pluperfect, but nobody would read it. Queed The perfect and the pluperfect of the subjunctive are formed from these same tenses in the indicative with the addition of the particle reba; e.g., agueta reba 'since he had offered.' Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language By looking again at the conjugation, you will notice, that have, placed before the perfect participle of any verb, forms the perfect tense; had, the pluperfect; shall or will, the first future, and so on. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures The perfect and pluperfect subjunctives are of course formed by means of the subjunctive present and past tenses of "have." Practical Exercises in English It is by the aid of auxiliary verbs that the perfect, pluperfect, or future tenses are formed. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. "The imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, and the first future tenses of this mood, are conjugated like the same tenses of the indicative." The Grammar of English Grammars Iroquois verbs have three moods, indicative, imperative, and subjunctive; and they have, in the indicative, seven tenses, the present, imperfect, perfect, pluperfect, aorist, future, and paulo-post future. The Iroquois Book of Rites The perfect, pluperfect, and first future tenses of the subjunctive mood, are conjugated in a manner similar to the correspondent tenses of the indicative. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures There would be no doubt on this point, were it not for the pluperfect tense, decreverat. Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War Of all the vain wishes, the retroactive pluperfect are the vainest, and an antenatal wish is sublimely ridiculous. We Can't Have Everything The imperfect tense visited should therefore have been had visited, in the pluperfect tense, representing the action of visiting, not only as past, but also as prior to the time of returning. The Grammar of English Grammars Well, this Hendricks—he had a pluperfect alibi—couldn't be shaken—so Mr. Stone, he says, the more perfect the alibi, the more we must distrust it. Raspberry Jam I have done; pluperfect, I had done; first future, I shall or will do; sec. fut. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures Sallust often uses the pluperfect, where his reader would expect the perfect; see, for instance, concusserat, at the beginning of c. Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War Somebody on a gray stallion came loping down toward us, leaping low bushes, riding erect with pluperfect hands and seat. The Eye of Zeitoon The conjunctive adverb after makes one of the actions subsequent to the other, and gives to the visiting all the priority that is signified by the pluperfect tense. The Grammar of English Grammars Had the pluperfect been omitted in one case and supplied in the other two sources of apparent difficulty would have been removed. Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science But nothing can rob the Congress of this fact, that it once had Bentenrieder for member; and, so far, is entitled to the pluperfect distinction in one particular. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 06 And the heroine was always so pluperfectly pure. A Plea for Old Cap Collier The relation of the tense is before the past, but the epithet pluperfect is not necessarily limited to this relation, any more than what is perfect is necessarily past. The Grammar of English Grammars There may be a convenience in having the name of the tense to differ from that of the participle, and this alone induces me to prefer preperfect to pluperfect for the name of the latter. The Grammar of English Grammars One form alone was available to express those modifications which are indicated by the imperfect, perfect, pluperfect, and aorist tenses of the classical languages. Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science |
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