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TEFL Grammar Workshop Verb Phrases (Helping or Auxiliary Verbs) What You’ll Learn: • How to identify Helping Verbs. • How Helping Verbs are used in a sentence. • How to identify Verb Phrases. Why It’s Important: • To further your understanding of Sentence Structure. • So you will know the difference between Main Verbs and Helping Verbs. Main Verbs: Verbs have four principle parts that are used to from all tenses. Principle Parts of a Verb Base Form Call Present Participle Calling Past Form Called Past Participle (have, has, had) Called Play Playing Played (have, has, had) Played Helping Verbs: A Helping Verb or Auxiliary Verbs helps the Main Verb tell about an action or make a statement. The most common Helping Verbs are be, have and do. Forms of the Helping Verb be include am, is, and are in the present and was and were in the past. They combine with the present participle form of the verb. Example: The girl is calling her parents. Forms of the Helping Verb have include have and has in the present and had in the past. They combine with the past participle form of the verb. Example: We have explored this cave. Verb Phrases: A Verb Phrase consists of one or more Helping Verbs followed by a Main Verb. For Example: Singular Plural I am memorizing my lines. We are memorizing our lines. I was memorizing my lines. You were memorizing your lines. Other Auxiliary Verbs include: can, could, may, might, shall, will, must, should, and would.