Pluperfect

[93] C. John Collins, "The Wayyiqtol as 'Pluperfect': When and Why," Tyndale Bulletin 46.1 (1995) 117-140.

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Pluperfect subjunctive is used to indicate a counterfactual past, e.g. “If I had screwed”, not the situation here atall.

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Pluperfect subjunctive is used to indicate a counterfactual past, e.g. “If I had screwed”, not the situation here atall.

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Pluperfect subjunctive is used to indicate a counterfactual past, e.g.

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Pluperfect subjunctive is used to indicate a counterfactual past, e.g.

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Miss Snark had them down cold when she was writhing ...errr.... writing her thesis on the Use of the Past Pluperfect In The Novels of Barbara Cartland, but sadly, now that her sheepskin is on the wall, she's lost every bit of style she ever had.

Ibid op cit ....f it! Miss Snark 2005

The Imperfect and Pluperfect in the Apodosis of conditional sentences of the contrary-to-fact type (see § 304) are also Potential in character.

New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

Indicative, particularly of the Pluperfect (compare §§ 287, 2; 302, 3); as, -- cum ād aliquod oppidum vēnerat, eādem lectīcā ad cubiculum dēferēbātur,

New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

Pluperfect Indicative; as, -- equitātus quem coāctum habēbat, _the cavalry which he had collected.

New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

The Imperfect expresses, in the form of a wish, the _regret that something is not so now_; the Pluperfect that something _was not so in the past_.

New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett