Read the sentence. she had heard that the figure skaters were arriving. what are the verbs in the verb phrases?

The helping verbs in this sentence are "had" and "were".

Helping verbs, also called auxiliary verbs, are used with the main verb in order to add a funcional or grammatical meaning.

Helping verbs have different functions within a sentence. They can express tense, modality, voice or emphasis. In this sentence for example, both helping verbs  "had" and "were" express the tense of the verb.

Had heard: Past perfect

Were arriving: past progressive

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the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .