Helping Verbs and Main Verbs

Helping Verbs am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been have, has, had shall, will do, does, did may, must, might can, could, would, should

Verb Phrase Contains one main verb and one or more helping verbs

Christopher can sing beautifully. Main verb is sing. Helping verb is can.

The code was hidden inside an old book. Main verb is hidden. Helping verb is was.

Sparky will not bite you. Main verb is bite. Helping verb is will. Skip over the negative construction!

On Your Own Write a sentence about Halloween using a verb phrase. Think of the main verb and then choose a helping verb to go along with it!