Language Arts Grade Four

Unit Six, Lesson Three: Helping Verbs

  1. brush
  2. fresh
  3. trash
  4. shave
  5. sharp
  6. mashed
  7. potato
  8. farm
  9. pass
  10. summit
  1. crest
  2. altitude
  3. beaver
  4. marmot
  5. buffalo
  6. antelope
  7. grizzly
  8. deer
  9. trapper
  10. protozoa
Helping Verbs

Here are some common helping verbs: 


	am	is	are	was	were
	
	could	shall	will	being	be

	may	can	might	would	should

	did	do	had	has	have
Here are some sample sentences using a few of these helping verbs. 

  We would have gone if we had a ride.

  There have been some hot days lately.

  They might be coming to see us tonight.

  They were going to the zoo.

  They were at the meeting.
As you recall, a verb is an action word. Helping verbs work with regular verbs (or sometimes along with another helping verb). That's why more than one word is underlined in the examples shown above. Here are a few more examples. 

  They will leave soon.

  The dogs are barking at the moon.

  I am tired already.

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