What are the helping verbs?

 

What are the helping verbs? In English, there are important verbs. They are called helping verbs that also known as auxiliary verbs. Their function is to assist to express the main verb’s time period, emotion, or voice. There are three basic helping verbs. They are the following verbs in bold. To Do, To Be, To Have. They have different forms. So, let’s open these forms. To Be has the following forms. Am, Is, Are, Was, Were. Being, Been, Will Be. The main role of “to be” is to point out the tense of the sentence or to express the passive voice .

§  I am the one who walks alone walking the dark road.

§  I was made for loving you baby.

§  This wall was made by the masonry of the late Italian city-states.

Another helping verb is to have. The forms to have are the following ones. Has, Having, Had, Will Have. This helping verb can have the same roles in a sentence as to be.

§  The captain had taken all the responsibility in the case.

§  I have been to the west side of New York City.

Also, there is to do as a helping verb. The most common usage of this helping verb is the interrogative function.

§  Did you do all the assignments I assigned you in the last lecture?

§  Do you mind just for once?

§  Where do you live, ma’ beautiful lady?

The modal auxiliary (helping) verbs:

“To do”, “to have”, and “to be” are the basic helping verbs. Actually, there are more helping verbs than them. So, what they are?