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Re:Commit messages guide by massive-tea on Sunday April 21, 2019 @03:30AM (#19710969)
I thought it went without saying that we're talking about main verbs because verbs in other positions don't change forms anyway.
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Re:Commit messages guide by thaumasiotes on Sunday April 21, 2019 @04:50AM (#19711226) 

    At this point, he has been being investigated for six months.
That sentence contains four verbs, of which zero are in the plain form. (One is present-3sg, one is ING-form, and two are EN-form.)

Are all four of them "main verbs"?

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