{"id":1489,"date":"2012-08-30T13:11:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T20:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e-gmat.com\/blogs\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2022-11-24T16:20:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T10:50:49","slug":"verbs-helping-verbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-gmat.com\/blogs\/verbs-helping-verbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Verbs &#8211; Helping Verbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">A <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">min read <\/span><\/span>\n<p>We learned about the <a title=\"Verbs \u2013 Base Form\" href=\"http:\/\/e-gmat.com\/blogs\/?p=1487\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">base <\/a>form of verbs.&nbsp; Now in this post we will learn what are helping verbs.&nbsp;&nbsp; A verb can consist of more than one word. In such cases, there is one base verb and the rest are called the auxiliary or the helping verbs. Following is the list of the auxiliary verbs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>is, are, am, was, were, has, have, had, has\/have\/had been, can\/could, may\/might, will\/would, shall\/should.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s take a few sentences here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The president is still deliberating on the issues of economic crisis.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In this sentence, \u201cdeliberating\u201d is the base verb. But it alone does not make a verb in this sentence. The preceding helping verb \u201cis\u201d makes them together the verb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Mike has been working on his project.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In this sentence, \u201cworking\u201d is the base verb. But the complete verb here is \u201chas been working\u201d where \u201chas been\u201d are the helping verb without which the base verb cannot be regarded as a verb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also notice that when we use do\/does\/did, it is always followed by a base verb. The number of the helping verb depends upon the number of the subject. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>The flower does not bloom well in windy weather.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Notice that \u201cthe flower\u201d is the singular subject. That is why the auxiliary verb used for this subject is singular \u201cdoes\u201d. Since we have already used one singular verb in the sentence, the verb that follows the helping verb is in the base form. Even if the subject is singular, we cannot say \u201cdoes not blooms\u201d. 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