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Identify the tense of the italicized verb in the sentence below.

The leaves :had fallen: by the end of October.

past
past perfect
present
present perfect
future
future perfect

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Answer:

past perfect

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Past perfect because of the combination of the auxiliary "had" and the past tense of the verb "fall", "fallen".

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