General
Verbs have this many forms from which tenses are built.
What is four?
There are this many helping verbs.
What is 23?
The present participle in the following sentence: "I am loving this game."
What is loving?
This is the past participle of blow.
What is blown?
This is the correct verb for the following sentence: "The kitties are (lying, laying) on the couch."
What is lying?
A helping verb and a main verb form this.
What is a verb phrase?
These are the last 5 helping verbs in the helping verb song.
What are may, might, must, can, could?
The past participle in the following sentence: "I had studied for the Jeopardy game."
What is studied?
This is the past participle of speak.
What is spoken?
This is the correct verb for the following sentence: "The kitties had (lain, laid) on the couch."
What is lain?
This verb form ends in -ing.
What is the present participle?
This word is the helping verb in the following sentence: "I have never liked eggplant."
What is have?
The perfect (completed) tenses are formed with this verb form.
What is the past participle?
This is the past form of meet.
What is met?
This is the correct verb for the following sentence: "The contractor had (lain, laid) down the flooring before the walls were painted."
What is laid?
This verb form often looks like a past participle but is never used with a helping verb.
What is past form?
Many helping verbs, like "is" and "are," can also be used as what kind of verb?
What is a linking verb?
The progressive (continuous) tenses are formed with this participle.
What is the present participle?
This is the past participle of put.
What is put?
This is the correct verb for the following sentence: "Please (lie, lay) the poster boards on the table."
What is lay?
This part of speech is sometimes seen between a helping verb and a main verb.
What is an adverb?
This helping verb is always used in future tenses.
What is will?
Participles help form verb phrases or serve as what other part of speech?
What are adjectives?
This is the past participle of begin.
What is begun?
This is the correct verb for the following sentence: "My head hurt yesterday so I (lay, laid) down and took a nap."
What is lay?