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What form is the underlined verb in the sentence?

The leaves are falling off the trees earlier this year.

A.
present participle

B.
past participle

C.
present

D.
past

User Rrevo
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There's nothing underlined but I guess you mean "are falling off". So it has A.
present participle. Because it ends with "-ing" and forms cotinuous tense.
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