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Helping Verbs
List of Helping Verbs
Always Helping
Verbs:
 May
 Might
 must
 Should
 Could
 would
 Will
 Can
 shall
Can be Helping
Verbs and Main
Verbs:
 Be (am, is, are,
was, were)
 Have
 Being --Had
 Been
--Has
 Am
--Did
 Are
--Does
 Is
--Do
 Was
 were
 John
was helping his mom.
 You can wait your turn.
 You shouldn’t read that
book.
 Kevin may have been
searching for the lost key.
 I can’t believe she is going
out with him.
Direct Objects
 The
direct object is the
noun that receives the
action of the verb.
 Typically, a direct object
follows the verb and can be
found by asking who or what
received the action of the
verb.
 In
the following examples, the
direct object is bold and the verb
is underlined.
 Example: After dinner, Matthew
always serves a cake.
–To determine the direct object,
ask whom or what was acted on
by the verb.
 Example:
To the average citizen,
politics offers considerable
frustration.
–Although the direct object
follows the verb, an adjective
may be between the verb and
object.
 Christine discovered a pile of
books hidden under the staircase.
 Identify
direct object in the
following sentence.
John played basketball in his
backyard with Joyce and Timothy.
 A. backyard
 B. basketball
 C. John
 D. played
 Identify
direct object in the
following sentence.
Trisha visited Rome with her
cousin last year.
 A. Trisha
 B. last year
 C. Rome
 D. her cousin
 Identify
direct object in the
following sentence.
Helen played piano for three
hours.
 A. Helen
 B. everyday
 C. three hours
 D. piano