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Read the sentence. She had heard that the figure skaters were arriving. What are the helping verbs in the verb phrase?

Heard; arriving
Had; heard
Were; arriving
Had; were

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Answer:

had ; were

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It would be the fourth choice - Had; were.

She "had" heard that the figure skaters "were" arriving. The helping verbs are verbs that help the main verb in a sentence by extending its meaning to be grammatically correct in the sentence.
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