What are Helping Verbs? Helping verbs work with action and being verbs to give more information about when or how an action is happening. Some verbs always need action verbs. For example, the action verb “been” needs the helping verb “have.” They have been playing all day. Being verbs act as helping verbs when we combine them with action verbs. For example, in the sentence she is singing, the word is acts as a helping verb. Your students have already been using helping verbs! Here is a list of h
