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 Tense Subject Auxiliary Past Participle Singular Plural Present The car/cars is are designed. Present perfect has been have been Past was were Past perfect had been Future will be Future perfect will have been Present progressive is being are being Past progressive was being were being designed

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