Read the sentence below and answer the question that follows. Rockwell had been attending the New York School of Art when he dropped out and enrolled at the National Academy of Design. What is the tense of the underlined verb?

The verb phrase “had been attending” is in the past perfect progressive tense. It uses “had been” followed by the -ing form “attending” to show an action that was ongoing before another past event, “dropped out.”

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