• the grammatical form used for an action that had already finished when another action happened. It is made with had and a past participle:


    Past perfect meaning & definition 1 of Past perfect.


  • a tense usually formed with had that is used to refer to the earlier of two different times in the past:

    Past perfect meaning & definition 2 of Past perfect.

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