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