He spoke with pluperfect precision. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The board decided you'd be perfect — pluperfect — for the job. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
While Johnny may have been his own best guest, he was also the pluperfect host. From Wordnik.com. [Stranger In The Night] Reference
Adjective : He spoke the language with pluperfect precision. From Dictionary.com.
Why in pluperfect hvell does he think we even have an economic meltdown?. From Wordnik.com. [Mitt Romney For Auto Industry Czar* - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference
Or scrod, if you prefer the pluperfect indicative. From Wordnik.com. [Important things for artists (revised):] Reference
The verb is aorist, with no pluperfect tendencies. From Wordnik.com. [Had Been Getting Tense In Genesis] Reference
How exquisitely pluperfect: You are my goddess, Tena. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Responds To McCain, Blasts His Phony "Toughness" As "Extraordinarily Naive"] Reference
Or, maybe the pluperfect tense makes you perfectly tense. From Wordnik.com. [Does it Sound Right Doesn’t Work Anymore « Esl Articles « Articles « Literacy News] Reference
Was there a retractional pluperfect subjunctive in Yumish?. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
I meant to say pluperfect tense, not present perfect tense. From Wordnik.com. [BookExpo America: What to Read - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
The pluperfect would, however, be fine: "I'd bored of it quickly". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: BORING.] Reference
I always edit that one to get rid of “pluperfect subjunctive.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Information About Prostitution] Reference
NORWOOD: Well, in south Georgia language, that's pluperfect nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2003] Reference
Quick: Give me an example of the pluperfect and the future subjunctive. From Wordnik.com. [Heavily accented teachers removed from Arizona classrooms] Reference
Enh. I always edit that one to get rid of “pluperfect subjunctive.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Information About Prostitution] Reference
Among rats the chieftain is, of necessity, pluperfect master of defence. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
It's like a Randall Garrett Lovecraft parody in its pluperfect wrongness. From Wordnik.com. [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference
“Thriller” was not so much innovation as it was pluperfect power pop. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
We note the simple past in place of the pluperfect: slang that had been fresh. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: STRATA OF SPEECH.] Reference
He can succeed in this without being godlike in wisdom or pluperfect in temper. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
'Hurling pluperfect subjunctives at the enemy trenches never won a battle yet.'. From Wordnik.com. [Partisans]
I prefer to talk about myself in the pluperfect or Plus que parfait en francais. From Wordnik.com. [How To Be Annoying as Hell in your Query Letter] Reference
In any case, that substitution for the pluperfect is not explained in such a way. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: STRATA OF SPEECH.] Reference
The pluperfect is sometimes used with postquam when the lapse of time is denoted. From Wordnik.com. [Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader] Reference
Interesting from a non-American; and we do see a pluperfect soon after in the passage. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: STRATA OF SPEECH.] Reference
(I think the title would have been better in the pluperfect: "had had" but I'm an old quibbler). From Wordnik.com. [Culture] Reference
This and factae below are used as predicate adjectives, not to form the pluperfect passive with erant. From Wordnik.com. [Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader] Reference
Respecting the imperfect in the protasis, though the apodosis contains the pluperfect, see Zumpt, S 525. From Wordnik.com. [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference
It starkly illustrates the effect of his shift from pluperfect past subjunctive to future indicative mood in that paragraph. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » I’ll say it if Justice Souter Won’t:] Reference
Postquam is regularly followed by the perfect or present indicative, but the English translation usually requires the pluperfect. From Wordnik.com. [Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader] Reference
"It's just that that's the first time I've heard it in the pluperfect subjunctive.". From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
There is no grammatical warrant for the use of the pluperfect tense form of the verb "say" here. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Wendy] Reference
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