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Verbs
are words that express action, being or
state of being.
Example – went, are, sing
Verb Phrases
Consists of a main verb and one or more other
verbs
Example – The women are singing. Where have
you been?
Helping Verbs
The last word of a verb phrase is the main verb.
The other words are helping verbs.
Examples:Beth & Jon were sitting on the bench.
H.V. M.V.
Helping verbs: am, are, is, was, were, be, being,
been, has, have, had. do, does, did, can, could,
must, may, might, shall, should, will, would
More Helping Verbs
A verb phrase may have more than one helping
verb.
The helping verb can be separated from the
main verb.
– Example: should have taken
» have been growing
H.V.
M.V.
Is/Are Was/Were
Use IS with a singular subject
Use ARE with a plural subject
Always use ARE with the pronoun you
Use WAS with a singular subject to tell about the
past
Use WERE with a plural subject to tell about the past
Always use WERE with the pronoun you.
Verb Tense
Tells time of the action or being
Present tense tells something is happening now
– Ex. Amanda dances in the show.
Past tense tells something happened in the past
– Ex.Amanda danced in the show.
Future tense tells something WILL happen in the
future.
– Ex. Amanda will dance tomorrow in the show.
Principle Parts of Verbs
present, present
participle, past, past
participle
For regular verbs –
present participle is
formed by adding –ing
– Used with a form of
helping verb (be)
Past & past participles –
formed by adding –ed to
the present
Uses the form of the
helping verb (have)
Examples
Present
Present
Participle
Past
Past
Participle
walk
(is) walking
walked
(have, has,
had) walked
point
(is) pointing
pointed
(have, has,
had) pointed
cook
(is) cooking
cooked
(have, has,
had) cooked
Additional Examples
Auxiliary
Singular
Plural
Past
Participle
is
are
designed.
Present perfect The car/cars
has been
have been
designed.
Past
The car/cars
was
were
designed.
Past perfect
The car/cars
had been
had been
designed.
Future
The car/cars
will be
will be
designed.
Future perfect
The car/cars
will have been
will have been
designed.
Present
progressive
The car/cars
is being
are being
designed.
Past
progressive
The car/cars
was being
were being
designed
Tense
Subject
Present
The car/cars
Past tenses
Never use a helping verb with:
– Saw, did, came, ate, drank, sang, rang, froze, chose,
spoke, broke, knew, grew, threw, blew, flew, took,
wrote, gave, went
Always use a helping verb with:
– Seen, done, come, eaten, drunk, sung, rung, frozen,
chosen, spoken, broken, known, grown, thrown,
blown, flown, taken, written, given, gone