Helping Verbs of Tense With More Examples

 In English Grammar, without the helping verbs of tense you can't make any correct sentence. So you should know about them described below.

Helping Verbs help to make sentences

Before discussing the helping verbs of tense I will tell you some importance of Tense. It is known to all that Tense is the most important chapter of English Grammar and Language. Without tense you can't write correct English and can't speak English perfectly. Tense will help you  how to write correct form of English sentences. As tense is so much important, you should also know about the helping verbs that are the basic elements of tense.

Helping Verbs of Present Tense

Now I am describing the helping verbs in the three forms of sentences: Negative, Interrogative and Negative-Interrogative Sentences.

i) Present Indefinite Tense: 

In the affirmative form there is no helping verb in Present Indefinite tense. But in negative and interrogative forms there are helping verbs. Example: don't/doesn't and do/does

If subject is 3rd person and singular number, after the subject, the helping verb will be 'doesn't/ does not and other cases helping verbs will be don't/ do not.

Negative Sentences	Interrogative Sentences
Mr. Jack doesn't waste his time He doesn't come here in time. She doesn't sing a good song.	Does Mr. Jack waste his time? Does he come here in time? Does she sing a good song?.
You don't look down upon the poor. They don't come late. I don't follow the dishonest people.	Do you look down upon the poor? Do they come late? Do I follow the dishonest people?

If the subject is noun, the sign of negative 'not' is used before the subject. And if the subject is pronoun, not is used after pronoun. On the other hand, the short form of not(n't) is used before noun and pronoun. The examples can make you clear.

Negative-Interrogative:

Does not Jonson play cricket?
or,
Doesn't Jonson play cricket?

Does she not cook food?
or,
Doesn't she cook food?

Do I not help them?
or,
Don't I help them?

Past Indefinite

Like present indefinite tense there is no helping verb in the affirmative form of sentence. But in the negative, interrogative and negative-interrogative there is a helping verb: did/ didn't

Example:

Negative: 

Mr. Jack didn't waste his time
He didn't come here in time.
She didn't sing a good song.

Interrogative:

Did Mr. Jack waste his time?
Did he come here in time?
Did she sing a good song?

Negative-Interrogative

 Did not Jonson play cricket?

or,
Didn't Jonson play cricket?

Did she not cook food?
or,
Didn't she cook food?

Did I not help them?
or,
Didn't I help them?


It is noted that do/ does is present indefinite and the past of do is 'did' that's past indefinite. 

Present Continuous Tense

Affirmative:

The helping verbs are 'am, is, are etc.'. These are used before the principal verbs.

He is doing his work.
You are going there.
Rabin is catching fish.

Negative: am not, is not/isn't, are not/ aren't etc.

He is not doing his work.
You are not going there.
Rabin is not catching fish.

Negative-Interrogative

Is he not doing his work?
or,
Isn't he doing his work?

Are you not going there?
or,
Aren't you going there?

Is not Rabin catching fish?
or,
Isn't Rabin catching fish?

Past Continuous Tense

Affirmative:

The helping verbs are 'was' and were that are the past of  'am, is, are etc.'. These are used before the principal verbs. Here was/ were are to be used instead of am, is/ were.

He was doing his work.
You were going there.
Rabin was catching fish.

Negative: was not/wasn't, were not/ weren't etc.

He was not doing his work.
You were not going there.
Rabin was not catching fish.

Negative-Interrogative

Was he not doing his work?
or,
Wasn't he doing his work?

Were you not going there?
or,
Weren't you going there?

Was not Rabin catching fish?
or,
Wasn't Rabin catching fish?

Present Perfect Tense 

Helping Verbs: Have/ Has

Affirmative: He has done his duty.
Negative: He has not/ hasn't done his duty.
Interrogative: Has he done his duty?
Negative-Interrogative: Has he not done his duty?
or Hasn't he done his duty?

Past Perfect

Helping Verb: Had.
 Here you use had instead of 'Have'/ 'Has'

Affirmative: He had done his duty.
Negative: He had not/ hadn't done his duty.
Interrogative: Had he done his duty?
Negative-Interrogative: Had he not done his duty?
or Hadn't he done his duty?

Present Perfect Continuous Tense

Helping Verbs: has been/ have been

Affirmative: You have been reading this book for one hour.

Negative: You have not been reading this book since morning.

Interrogative: Have you been reading this book since afternoon?

Negative-Interrogative: Have you not reading this book since morning? 

or,

 Haven't you been reading this book for one hour?

Has not Mr. Rock been reading this book for one hour?  

or,

Hasn't Mr. Rock been reading this book for one hour?

Past Perfect Continuous

Helping Verb: had been. 

Affirmative: You had been reading this book for one hour.

Negative: You had not been reading this book since morning.

Interrogative: Had you been reading this book since afternoon?

Negative-Interrogative: Had you not reading this book since morning? 

or,

 Hadn't you been reading this book for one hour?

Had not Mr. Rock been reading this book for one hour?  

or,

Hadn't Mr. Rock been reading this book for one hour?

Future Indefinite Tense

Helping Verbs: Shall / will

You will follow him.

They will go there.

We shall/ will help the poor.

I shall/will take care of my parents.

Future Continuous Tense

Helping Verbs: Shall be / Will be

You will be doing this work.

I/We shall be / will be working together. 

Future Perfect Tense

Helping Verbs: will/ will have 

You will have controlled your emotions

I/We shall/will have learnt blogging tips. 

Future Perfect Continuous

Helping Verbs: shall/ will have been

You will have been dancing for one hour. 

Tip-1.

i) am, is, are= Present Continuous.

      ii)   was, were = Past Continuou

          iii) have = Present Perfect

        iv)  had = Past Perfect

          v)shall = Future

vi) been = Perfect Continuous. 

Shall / will + have= 'shall/ will'  means future and 'have' means perfect. so 'shall/ will have means future perfect.

Tip-2. 

i)You add 'ing' to all the continuous tenses.

ii) You also add 'have/ has' to only the perfect tenses. 

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