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Questions related to the English Perfect Construction, which is sometimes called "the present perfect tense".

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at which point I can shift from past perfect back to simple past?

I would personally go with pluperfect just once then revert to simple past, the understanding being that simple past was for the duration of the passage standing in for pluperfect: Tom simply couldn' …
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