Helping Verbs and Main Verbs

Select the helping verb. You must drive slowly on a road with this many twists and turns!

• must

• drive

• must drive

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

Select the helping verb. Earlier that week, Henry had made a silver cape for his Halloween costume.

• had

• made

• had made

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

Select the main verb. Leonard would like a hamburger with lettuce and tomato.

• would

• would like

• like

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

Select the main verb. By the early 1900s, people were arriving in New York. from all over the world.

• were

• were arriving

• arriving

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

Select all the main verbs and helping verbs from the options below.

• snore

• swim

• yesterday

• was

• am

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

Pick the main verb in the sentence:

I laughed a lot last night!

• laughed

• a

• last

• night

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

Pick the helping verb in the sentence:

My trip was canceled.

• My

• trip

• was

• canceled

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

Pick the helping verb in the sentence:

I am looking for a paper.

• am

• paper

• looking

• I

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

Pick the main verb in the sentence:

Her smile filled my day with joy.

• joy

• filled

• smile

• day

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B

What is the helping verb in this sentence We will see an old tree house.?

• will

• see

• an

• old

Tags

CCSS.L.1.1E

CCSS.L.1.4C

CCSS.L.2.6

CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.4.1B