Helping Verbs and Linking Verbs
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Helping Verbs and Linking Verbs
Helping verbs and linking verbs: decide whether is, are, was, have, or smells helps a main verb or links the subject to a describing word, underline a helping verb and its main verb, and write a sentence with a linking verb. With an answer key.
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Helping and Linking VerbsA teaching handout to hand out before this sheet: the rule, worked examples and common mistakes.- Skill
- Verb Worksheets
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- About 15 minutes
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Find action, helping and linking verbs, write verbs in the past, present and future, use irregular past forms such as sat and told, and make the verb agree with its subject, even when a phrase comes between them.
Reviewed by Mrs. Sarah Thompson, Teacher. How we check worksheets
How to use this sheet
- Have the child say each sentence aloud with the verb. Most verb errors sound wrong when spoken.
- Put "yesterday", "today" and "tomorrow" in front of the sentence to check the tense.
- For irregular verbs, keep a list of the three forms, such as go, went and gone.
Common mistakes
- Adding -ed to irregular verbs, such as "goed" or "runned".
- Using the past participle without a helping verb, as in "I seen it". It needs a helper: I have seen it.
- Changing tense in the middle of a story without a reason.
