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I am desperately trying to conquer the diagramming of this sentence: "Homer is believed to have been from modern-day Turkey." I'm fairly certain "is believed" is a helping verb/verb combination, but what is "to have been"? Is it a verb phrase? It can't be a prepositional phrase, right? Where does it fit in a diagram? Any help would be appreciated. 

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Identify the sentence with correct use of the past continuous tense:
A She was playing the piano all evening.
B He speaks three languages fluently.
C They eat dinner at 7 PM every day.
D I was studying when the phone rang.