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Preterit Perfect vs Past Perfect

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¿Pudiera alguien decirme la que la diferencia es entre del preterit perfect y el past perfect? Me parecen muy parecidos. Muchas gracias y por favor corija mi gramática si es incorrecta.

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updated Jan 25, 2016
posted by gringo1234

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This is quoted from a book I have.

"The preterite perfect is formed by using the preterite of the verb haber and the past participle".

"The preterite perfect is used only in very special cases. This is a very literary tense and is always preceded by a time expression such as'en cuanto' (as soon as), 'luego que' (as soon as), 'apenas' (scarcely), 'cuando' (when)".

The past perfect is like Julian wrote. In my book pluperfect.

Pluperfect - El había hablado y luego nos fuimos.

He had spoken and then we left.

Preterite perfect - Luego que hubo hablado, nos fuimos.

As soon as he had spoken, we left.

Hope this helps, I am still working on it myself. I hope I don't have errors in the examples, could someone please double check them.

updated Jan 26, 2016
edited by 00551866
posted by 00551866
Or, we made love and then he left ? - ray76, Jan 25, 2016
That's definitely preterite ---action completed in the past. - Daniela2041, Jan 25, 2016
@Andre: You're correct about, the rare usage of hube hubiste hubo etc, plus past participle. It doesn't even appear in the intermediate textbooks. (2nd year) I have never used it in conversation - Daniela2041, Jan 25, 2016
Thanks Daniela. - 00551866, Jan 25, 2016
Great answer, Andre! - annierats, Jan 25, 2016
Thanks Annie - 00551866, Jan 25, 2016
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"¿Podría alguien decirme qué es la diferencia entre el preterit perfect y el past perfect?"

El pretérito (simple / perfecto) indica una acción del pasado iniciada y terminada.

El past perfect es una conjugación de inglés que indica una acción del pasado que occure antes de otra acción del pasado mientras las dos salen en la misma oración. En español este tiempo se logra usando la palabra haber con un participio siguiente.

updated Jan 26, 2016
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