Helping Verbs

Summary
This is an introductory lesson about auxiliary or helping verbs and how to use them.

Objectives
• to identify some common helping verbs;

• to explain how to use the correct verb form with a helping verb.

Suggested Grades
3rd Grade
4th Grade

Excerpt
Do you remember learning about verbs? Verbs are doing words. We cannot make a sentence without using verbs. Look at this sentence:

? The boy ran.

The word ran is the doing word or the action verb. Today, we are going to learn about another kind of verb. This verb is called a helping verb or an auxiliary verb. There are 23 helping verbs:

am do must
are does shall
be had should
been has was
being have were
can is will
could may would
did might

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