Leslie could have joined an elite group of racers.

which are the verbs in the underlined verb phrase?

The helping verbs in the underlined verb phrase are could have.

Helping verbs, usually refered to as auxiliary verbs, help out the main verb in a sentence. They accomplish this by providing more detail to how time is portrayed in a sentence. For this reason, they are used in verb conjugation to show the progressive and the perfect tenses of verbs.  Helping verbs don’t show meaning in that they don’t communicate much when they are on their own.

your answer would be: d) eye contact

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