24 Helping and Auxiliary Verbs List with Examples

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In today’s session, we are going to look at the list of 24 helping verbs, out of which 23 are commonly used.

Auxiliary Verbs are part of the verb, which is used to provide help to a main verb to form an eligible sentence structure. You can learn that the ‘Be’ verbs and models are generally considered as the Auxiliary Verbs.

Helping verbs have no meaning on their own but are necessary for the grammatical structure of a sentence.

Why do we need Helping Verbs in English?

Let’s know what is the purpose behind using helping verbs in English sentences. The helping verb is that they support the main verb and also conjugate it to create a verb tense.

  • The first example goes like this when you use “To be” with the main verb it will create the progressive tenses in the passive voice.
    • I am going to the market today. (progressive)
    • The novel was written. (passive)
  • The next example explains “To have” with the main verb that creates the perfect tenses.
    • He has owned three bikes prior to purchasing a truck.
    • She has eaten too much cake today.

Note: ‘Do’, ‘Did’ and ‘Does’ also work as auxiliaries in negative sentences and also in various interrogative forms of sentences.

So we will continue the earlier session list of helping verbs to help you learn it in a better way.

Examples of Helping Verbs with Sentences

Let’s check out the concise list of Helping Verbs with various examples that go with it.

DoDoesDidHas
HaveHadIsAm
AreWasWereBe
BeingBeenMayMust
MightShouldCouldWould
ShallWillCanOught
  • She is playing volleyball.
  • He is sleeping.
  • They were seen.
  • Do you want to go?
  • He was skating in the playground.
  • Mohana was drastically hit by the bike.
  • We have been taking dancing lessons for five months now.
  • We have lived in five different countries.
  • I will definitely call you tomorrow.
  • We can easily adopt a Panda.
  • I may go to a new movie tonight.
  • We should adopt a Panda.
  • You should listen.
  • We did adopt a Panda.
  • Is he bringing his friend?
  • We might adopt a Panda.
  • We will adopt a Panda.
  • He will be presenting at 3:00 p.m.
  • Will you be going to work today?
  • We are following your brother.
  • He will be presenting at 3:00 p.m.
  • I may go to a new movie tonight.
  • Kate has taken the car.
  • We are going to make a trip to South Africa really soon.
  • You might have wasted a lot of planned tips but now it’s alright.
  • Your Emilia was planning to go on a trip to South America.
  • Do you want to go home?
  • Albert is writing a very long message to his parents.
  • She is busy doing her work for fixing a date for them.
  • We have been planning it for so long.
  • His mother did not know anything about the work.
  • Ritika always planned it another way.
  • Now, Alberto is convincing her to go with him.
  • But Monika is not ready to listen to his bluffs.
  • We have tried it many times.
  • It hasn’t arrived yet.
  • Have they brought the umbrella?
  • We have been waiting for hours!
  • He will have finished by 3:00 p.m.

Now your job is to highlight the helping verbs in the above sentences.

Here are some last points that you should always consider before using helping verbs.

  • It should be noted that not every English sentence needs a helping verb.
  • Whenever you see any verb that ends with “ing”, it means a helping verb usually accompanies it.

Conclusion:

These lessons would prove to be very helpful as they make you understand the role of helping verb (auxiliary verb and modal verb). It shows the use of helping verb in English Language and its importance and how the helping verbs are used with proper consistency. You would be now familiar with the way sentences work. We just practiced a different set of helping verbs with appropriate pronunciation and speaking skills.

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