| 11. | The pluperfect experts'specialty is that they have all the answers after the fact.
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| 12. | "It's the pluperfect form of the Republican Robin Hood in reverse.
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| 13. | Virginia City, too, is a pluperfect stage set of a Wild West town.
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| 14. | In short, it was pluperfect television.
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| 15. | The pluperfect and future perfect forms combine perfect aspect with past and future tense respectively.
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| 16. | However, pluperfect is considered legitimate in standard language, adding another tense to German:
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| 17. | It occurs both as a past perfect ( pluperfect ) and as a present perfect.
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| 18. | David Duchovny tossed off a Richard Gere impression that was all gesture but pluperfect in delivery.
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| 19. | As novels are written in preterite, the tense system is shifted and perfect becomes pluperfect.
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| 20. | Mixtec lacks an imperfect, pluperfect, and all the compound tenses found in other languages.
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