past perfect

When their son was born, they had been married for three years, (past perfect!

The past perfect construction is analogous to that in English.

"You find the past perfect and the present tense," he said with twinkling eyes.

After If, wish and would rather, the past perfect can be used to talk about past events that never happened.

"Past Perfect" was completed during the last year of the writer's life but only partly revised by him.

Similar sentences can also be constructed using past perfect progressive etc.

"I've only gone as far as the past perfect tense in my French book."

The past perfect can be used to express an unrealized hope, wish, etc.

Past perfect is a verb form with similar meaning to the pluperfect.

But your paragraph begins with the underlined sentence, so sometimes you need the past perfect.

The past perfect tense describes an action that started and ended in the past.

(past perfect) I will have run a marathon by the time I turn 30.

This combination communicate a more remote past or a past perfect.

It corresponds roughly to the past perfect in English.

(The past perfect tense is just not built for action.)

Things further in the past are usually described in the past perfect tense.

"What they're doing out there - they're dancing past perfect conditional tense right now."

It covers the English simple past and past perfect, along with their continuous equivalents.

Past perfect, over and done with, finished.

His mother is an owner of Past Perfect, an antiques shop in Chicago.

Past perfect would be had there been."

The Past Perfect expresses that the action was completed in the past before some other event.

I had eaten (past perfect, something that took place prior to a moment in the past)

Past perfect, or , refers to an action before another action in the past.

In English, we are forced to use either the simple past or the past perfect; Spanish has something specific between the two.