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Review: Verb Tenses, Answer 9.1

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Question:
The walls of the trenches that had been digged yesterday collapsed in the torrential downpour.
Answer:
The answer correctly formed compound verb is not correct.
Explanation:
Dug is the past tense and past participle of the verb dig; therefore, the correct form is had been dug.