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e.g. I usually started my day with the thing that had woken me up. Or you must use past perfect only in specific situations.

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    Your example sentence doesn't quite make sense; what are you trying to convey in your phrase?
    – Kman3
    Jun 7, 2021 at 15:15

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If I understand you correctly, what you'd like to know is if a sentence such as the following is possible:

When I was younger, I could only watch television if I had finished my homework first.

The past perfect (had finished) is fine here. The entire scenario refers to a repeated, iterative situation in the past, not to a single event.

To summarize, the past perfect serves to locate a situation before some other point or situation in the past, regardless of whether that situation occurred once or was a habitual, iterative past situation.

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