A verb tense that indicates one action was finished in the past, before another was finished Use the past tense of have + the past participle of the appropriate verb: He had hit the ball over the fence before we arrived
In grammar, the past perfect tenses of a verb are the ones used to talk about things that happened before a specific time. The simple past perfect tense uses `had' and the past participle of the verb, as in `She had seen him before'. It is sometimes called the pluperfect. the form of a verb that shows that the action described by the verb was completed before a particular time in the past, formed in English with 'had' and a past participle perfect