Helping verb/help

Helping verb/help
Message from sana posted on 04-07-2014 at 14:25:10 (D | E | F)
Hello
please could you give me a list of some helping verbs?
Thanks for any reply.
sana

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Edited by lucile83 on 05-07-2014 00:30

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Re: Helping verb/help from passenger75, posted on 04-07-2014 at 16:54:16 (D | E)
Hello,have a good time.
Helping verb is also called auxiliary verb.
Take this sentence for granted:You have done a great job.
"Have" is the helping verb.

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Re: Helping verb/help from clint01, posted on 04-07-2014 at 17:05:40 (D | E)
Hello,
As far as I remember helping or auxiliary verbs are as follow:
can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will and would
after which the base form of the main verb is used. For example: I can swim. You may go. You shall have a chocolate.

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Edited by clint01 on 04-07-2014 17:06

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Re: Helping verb/help from here4u, posted on 04-07-2014 at 19:22:42 (D | E)
hello

Link

Looks as if 'helping verbs' are modals and auxiliaries ... You'll find a lot about them on this site ...
Hope it helped !

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Re: Helping verb/help from clint01, posted on 04-07-2014 at 20:27:41 (D | E)
Hello,
Thank you for the link, here4u.
I DID have a look at the link you suggested. Can we consider DID a helping verb in the sentence I made?

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Re: Helping verb/help from singam412, posted on 04-07-2014 at 21:49:20 (D | E)
Hello,

Do,Does,Did,Am,Is,Are,Was,Were,Will,Shall,Will be,Shall be,Have,Has,Had,Can,Could,may,might,should,would,must

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Edited by lucile83 on 05-07-2014 00:35

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Re: Helping verb/help from here4u, posted on 04-07-2014 at 23:29:38 (D | E)
Hello
it's an expression which isn't used here ...(not used on Cambridge LD or Oxford, on ESL ...) Apparently there are 'primary helping verbs' = auxiliaries (is am are do does did ...; )
and modal auxiliaries => which amount to 23 altogether ... Other words for 'auxiliaries' ...

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Re: Helping verb/help from sana, posted on 05-07-2014 at 00:38:49 (D | E)
Hello
Many thanks!

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Edited by lucile83 on 05-07-2014 07:53
No capital letters please.

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Re: Helping verb/help from here4u, posted on 05-07-2014 at 13:31:39 (D | E)
@ clint! Hello !

From what I now know about this new concept for me, your 'did' isn't a 'helping verb'. It's not a modal auxiliary ... it's a 'frequentative form' indicating habit and repetitions ...
All is a question of 'names' and 'words' ...

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