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Organization for Community Networks

Ace: Appropriate Use of Helping Verbs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Check out this activity to sharpen your helping verb skills. Students and teachers will benefit from this unusual lesson plan.
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Other

Jefferson County School Dist.: Irregular & Helping Verbs

For Students 2nd - 8th Standards
This site has an online slide show offers a drill on forming irregular verbs. One slide of 63 includes information on helping verbs. Last slide has links to some online practice for irregular verbs.
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abcteach

Abc Teach: Verb Skill Sheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Provides worksheets to use with students explaining the different types of verbs and how to use them. There is one five page mini-unit on simple present, past and future tenses. Also included are a cut...
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Modal Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation and examples of helping verbs.
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Conditional Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides the definition of conditional verbs. Numerous examples of sentences with conditional verbs are provided in this resource.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Modal Auxiliary Verbs

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
Modal auxiliary verbs indicate expressions of belief, attitudes, likelihood, permission, or obligation. They inform the function of the main verb, and color the verb on a scale ranging from possibility to necessity. Video (0:47)
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Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Verbs With Helpers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation of how to use helping words with verbs, depending on the conjugation of the verb and the tense.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Verb Phrase

For Students 9th - 10th
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify a verb phrase in the context of a sentence.
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Robin L. Simmons

Grammar Bytes: The Auxiliary Verb

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Printable information is provided that demonstrates how to identify an auxiliary verb in the context of a sentence.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Helping Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
To introduce the idea of "helping" verbs, which may be part of verb strings or phrases, and how they add important shades of meaning. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content. Additional web sites are...
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Quia

Quia: Helping/auxilary Verbs: Rags to Riches

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This is interactive game, similar to "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," asks students choose the correct helping verbs for each sentence in order to earn points.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Past Perfect

For Students 9th - 10th
This video lesson focuses on the past perfect verb tense; it defines perfect tense, participles, and past perfect. It explains the requirements to form a past perfect tense including the use of the helping verb "had." It offers practice...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: How to Use Perfect Verb Tenses

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
The three perfect verb tenses show actions that have already been completed. [0:47]
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Grammarly

Grammarly Blog: Uses of Verbs

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This page focuses on verbs including definitions, action and non-action verbs, verb tenses, and verb moods with examples for all of the above.
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University College London

University College London: Auxiliary Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site has information on auxiliary verbs. Includes a short exercise to test your knowledge.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Auxiliary Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th
This slideshow lesson focuses on auxiliary verbs including the definition, examples, and purposes.
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English Club

English Club: Learn English: Grammar: Verbs: Modals: Have To/must Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Choose the correct helping verb to complete each of the ten sentences on this Quiz. Answers can be checked upon completion.
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Languages Online

Languages Online: Regular Present Tense

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief explanation of regular present tense conjugations introduces a variety of nine exercises that practice each type of conjugation -ar, -er, and -ir. Endings are first matched to pronouns, and then gap-fill exercises provide verb...
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Languages Online

Languages Online: The Preterite Tense (Regular Verbs)

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief explanation of the preterite tense and of its regular conjugations introduces a variety of exercises that practice each type of conjugation -ar, -er, and -ir. Endings are first matched to pronouns, and then gap-fill exercises...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Verbs Action/doing + Linking/being + Helping

For Students 2nd - 6th Standards
A nine-part learning module with links to texts, videos, images, and websites to use while learning about action, linking, and helping verbs.
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Capital Community College Foundation

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Helping and Modal Auxiliary Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A helping and modal auxiliary verb site from the Capital Community College. Use this site as a reference tool when learning about modal auxiliary verbs.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Using the Present Progressive Tense

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
Present progressives describe an action in progress, or something that started in the past and is still happening. It is formed with the helping "to be" verb in the present tense and the present participle of the verb. [0:42]
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Study Languages

Study Spanish: Preterite Tense Regular Verbs

For Students 9th - 10th
Excellent examples of the preterite tense for regular verbs. You can also generate a quiz where you can select 10 to 25 sample questions to help test your knowledge of regular verb conjugations in the preterite tense.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Shifts in Verb Tenses

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Shifts in verb tense are useful in helping readers understand actions occurring at different times. Verb tenses should stay consistent in every sentence. [0:42]

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