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Identify the tense in the sentence: "Parents are picking up thousands of pounds gambling on their children’s exam results."

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Answer:

the answer is; are, picking and gambling

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the reason is that Are is a present tense. its past tense is Were while Picking and Gambling are continuous tense.

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Answer:

its present continuous , helping verb are is used with ing verb

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