Exploring Helping Verbs

This video tutorial introduces helping verbs, emphasizing their importance in providing specific meaning and time in sentences. It includes a mnemonic story about Mr. Dew to aid memorization of the 23 helping verbs. The tutorial also covers additional helping verbs and their usage in sentences, providing examples and analysis to help learners understand how helping verbs function alongside action or linking verbs.

What is the main goal of the video?

• To write complex sentences

• To learn about action verbs

• To memorize and identify helping verbs

• To understand noun phrases

How many helping verbs are there?

• 23

• 21

• 20

• 22

What is the moral of the Mr. Dew story?

• Save money for the future

• Always write a will

• Live in a big mansion

• Teach children to be independent

Who did Mr. Dew's oldest daughter marry?

• Must

• Might

• Could

• Would

Which helping verb is associated with the youngest son?

• Should

• Have

• Do

• Will

What additional helping verbs are mentioned in the large can collection?

• May, might, must

• Should, could, would

• Do, does, did

• Am, is, are, was, were

Helping verbs must always be paired with which types of verbs?

• Adjectives

• Action or linking verbs

• Prepositions

• Nouns

In the sentence 'I am eating my pie', what is the helping verb?

• Pie

• Am

• My

• Eating

In the sentence 'She was remembering the story', what is the main verb?

• Story

• She

• Was

• Remembering

In the sentence 'They may not have traveled', which word is not a helping verb?

• May

• Not

• Have

• Traveled