The Pluperfect Subjunctive
www.stcharlesprep.org › 01_parents › oneil_jThe Pluperfect Subjunctive The Pluperfect Subjunctive, active and passive, is a Secondary Sequence Tense, and is never used in Purpose or Result Clauses. It is expressed in English by the helping verb phrases might have or would have. The formation rule is simple. Pluperfect Active Subjunctive: Use the perfect active stem (third principal
Pluperfect - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PluperfectSome languages, like Latin, make pluperfects purely by inflecting the verb, whereas most modern European languages do so using appropriate auxiliary verbs in combination with past participles. The ways in which some languages form the pluperfect are described below. Ancient Greek verbs had a pluperfect form (called ὑπερσυντέλικος, "more than completed"). An example is ἐτεθύκει, "had sacrificed" – compare the perfect τέθυκε, "has sacrificed". See Ancient …