by Linda Gilden @LindaGilden
In school we learn about
helping verbs, also called auxiliary verbs, and the support they are to other
verbs. That is a good thing. Everyone needs a helper occasionally.
Maybe you have forgotten
what those helping verbs are. Is, am, are, was, were, been, being, are the most
common. Helping is not the only use of the helping verbs. Other times they are
used as a complete predicate. Think of the way you function—sometimes you are a
parent, other times you are a friend, sometimes in the spotlight and other
times not. The function of the verb makes it a helper or not. Many times these
verbs are functional and needed.
