Help with Helping Verbs Helping Verbs Primary do (to make simple tense action questions and negatives)

(to make continuous tenses (to make perfect tenses) Modal (a specific type of helping verb) can could

be have

may will shall must ought (to)

might would should

"Do", "be" and "have" as helping verbs have exactly the same forms as when they are main verbs. Primary helping verbs are followed by the main

Modal helping verbs always have the same form. "Ought" is followed by the main verb in infinitive form. Other modal helping verbs are followed by the main verb in its base form (V1).

do + V1 (base verb) be + -ing (present participle) have + V3 (past participle)

ought + to... (infinitive) other modals + V1 (base verb)

"Do", "be" and "have" can also function as main verbs.

Modal helping verbs cannot function as main verbs.

In your notebook: 1. Create sentences using each of the following as Helping Verbs: is / has / should
2. Create negative sentences using each of the following as Helping Verbs: am / does / did / have / would 3. Create questions using each of the following as Helping Verbs: are / do / does / did / have / can