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What is a compound verb present?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

An example is: the dog has been barking all day.

A compound verb is made up of an auxiliary verb and another verb. In the example, the compound has two auxiliaries, has and been, as well as the present participle verb barking.

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