is the underlined verb a helping verb or a main verb?

Before moving to the suburbs, they had lived in Chicago for 20 years.
a. helping verb
b. main verb


a. helping verb

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Era esencial que tú ________________ de tu país por la guerra.

a. emigraste b. habrás emigrado c. emigraras

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Scrivi la soluzione che meglio completa le frasi scegliendo tra quelle suggerite tra parentesi. La X significa che non c’è bisogno di una preposizione.

Lucia mi ha consigliato _________ (di / a) comprare un vestito _________ (di / a) seta.

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Each of the following groups of words is a fragment. Identify what part of the sentence is missing and needs to be added to make the fragment into a sentence. staying home can be

a. Add a subject b. Add a verb c. Add a subject and a verb d. The subject and verb are present, but it doesn't express a completethought.

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