2. A Free sample background from www.awesomebackgrounds.com © 2002 By Default!Slide 1 Helping Verbs Using Houghton Mifflin Text p. 110-111

3. A Free sample background from www.awesomebackgrounds.com © 2002 By Default!Slide 2 What are helping verbs?  Sometimes the words has and have help other verbs to show past tense.  HAS and HAVE are called helping verbs.  Use the helping verb “has” with a singular noun in the subject and with he, she, or it. –Ex: Ann has played the game. She has enjoyed it.  Use the helping verb “have” with a plural noun in the subject and with I, you, we, or they. –Ex: They boys have helped her. I have watched.

4. A Free sample background from www.awesomebackgrounds.com © 2002 By Default!Slide 3 Is this helping verb used correctly? We have watched the circus with Aunt Millie three times.

5. A Free sample background from www.awesomebackgrounds.com © 2002 By Default!Slide 4 Is this helping verb used correctly? She have invited us two weeks ago.

6. A Free sample background from www.awesomebackgrounds.com © 2002 By Default!Slide 5 Is this helping verb used correctly? Ray has hurried to the circus grounds.

7. A Free sample background from www.awesomebackgrounds.com © 2002 By Default!Slide 6 Is this helping verb used correctly? The first act had started already.

8. A Free sample background from www.awesomebackgrounds.com © 2002 By Default!Slide 7 Is this helping verb used correctly? The ringmaster have stepped into the ring.

9. A Free sample background from www.awesomebackgrounds.com © 2002 By Default!Slide 8 Is this helping verb used correctly? You has liked it too.

10. A Free sample background from www.awesomebackgrounds.com © 2002 By Default!Slide 9 Which helping verb completes this sentence correctly? The elephants _______ paraded in a circle. has have have

11. A Free sample background from www.awesomebackgrounds.com © 2002 By Default!Slide 10 Which helping verb completes this sentence correctly? They _____ walked right in front of me all night. has have have

12. A Free sample background from www.awesomebackgrounds.com © 2002 By Default!Slide 11 Which helping verb completes this sentence correctly? The ringmaster _____ cracked his whip. has have has

13. A Free sample background from www.awesomebackgrounds.com © 2002 By Default!Slide 12 Which helping verb completes this sentence correctly? We ______ clapped loudly for the performers after every act. has have have

14. A Free sample background from www.awesomebackgrounds.com © 2002 By Default!Slide 13 Help! This Poem has 7 incorrect helping verbs. Write the poem correclty. At the Circus The acrobats has sailed through the air. They has dangled on ropes without a care. One clown have balanced a chair on his nose. The others has sprayed the crowd with a hose. A monkey have carried off the ringmaster’s hat. Nobody had planned on that. The lions has settled down at last. The show have ended much too fast!