CBSE Class 4 English Helping Verbs Worksheet

Fill in the blanks with suitable helping verbs. Choose from is, am, are, was and were.

1. Delhi ............................... a big city.
2. I ............................... seven years old.
3. You ............................... a nice boy.
4. I ............................... happy that you came first.
5. I ............................... calling you yesterday.
6. Father and uncle ............................... coming today.
7. Ali and Abu ............................... classmates.
8. Tanya ............................... throwing stones in the river yesterday.
9. Pawan’s father ............................... a cricketer when he............................... in school.
10. The children ............................ happy when they heard that they are going for a picnic.
Answer. 
1. is      2. am    3. are
4. am   5. was   6. are
7. are   8. was   9. was, was
10. were

Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of verbs given in the brackets.

1. They ............... (is, are) ready to go home but I ...............(am, is) not going right now.
2. He ................. (is, are) a nice boy but you ................. (is,are) not.
3. He .................. (has, have) a bat and I ..................... (has,have) a ball.
4. Raju .................. (has, have) many friends.
5. You .................. (is, are) my best friend. But now I.................. (is, am ) angry with you.
6. Payal .................. (is, am) studying for her test.
7. We ............... (are, was) happy to know that we ...............(is, are) going to watch a movie.
8. I .................. (is, am) going to Mumbai with my parents.
9. They ..................... (is, are) hungry.
10. Which animal ................ (has, have) a long neck?.
Answer.
 1. are, am   2. is, are     3. has, have
4. has          5. are, am   6. is
7. are, are    8. am         9. are
10. has

Rewrite the following sentences by using past forms of helping verbs.

1. He has a computer.
Answer. He had a computer.

2. My uncle is a doctor.
Answer. My uncle was a doctor.

3. You are late.
Answer. You were late.

4. She has long hair.
Answer. She had long hair.

5. The girl is reading a book.
Answer. The girl was reading a look.

6. I have to go.
Answer. I had to go.

7. The train is arriving at the platform.
Answer. The train was coming to the platform.

8. Mary has a little lamb.
Answer. Mary had a little lamb.

9. I am eating ice cream.
Answer. I was eating ice cream.

10. They are my brothers.
Answer. They were my brother.

Fill in the blanks with is, am, are, was, were, has, have, and had.

1. Uncle do you ...................... a box with you?
2. Bablu ..................... two toffees yesterday. Today he..................... only one as he ate another one today.
3. Mother, do you .................... the car keys?
4. I ..................... wearing a pink dress today.
5. Now, we ..................... going to school.
6. My pet dogs ..................... running around the house in
the evening.
7. Last year, I ....................... studying at the central school.
8. All the girls in my family ..................... beautiful.
9. Yesterday, I .................. absent as I ..................... fever.
10. Tarun ................. eating bread and butter now.
Answer.
1. have  2. had, has   3. have
4. am    5. are            6. were
7. was   8. are            9. was, had
10. is

Complete the sentences by using helping verb (is/am/are) and +ing form of verb. Verbs are given in the brackets.

1. Mother .................................. (cook) in the kitchen.
2. Reena .................................. (give) food to the beggar.
3. Lata .................................. (clean) the floor.
4. I .................................. (watch) the cricket match.
5. Priya .................................. (play) badminton.
6. Some bad boys .................................. (hit) the new boy.
7. You .................................. (go) to the bank.
8. Amit .................................. (push) the box.
9. I .................................. (read) the book.
10. Beena .................................. (walk) on the road.
Answer. 
1. is cooking      2. is giving
3. is cleaning     4. am watching
5. is playing      6. are hitting
7. are going      8. is pushing
9. am reading   10. is walking

Worksheet: Helping Verbs

Name ________________ Date: August 8,2013

Helping Verbs: They help the main verbs to form sentences. They are also called auxiliary verbs. They indicate whether an action is done in the present or past. Example- is, am , are, was, were, shall, should ,will, would, do, does, did, can , could, has, have, had.

Q1. Circle the words that are not helping verbs:

a. when,should,does,did

b. but,shall,will,can

c. do,does,is,it

d. is,am,are,which

e. has,had,could,on

Q2. Underline the helping verbs in the following sentences:

a. I will complete my work.

b. You can write with a pen.

c. Why did you jump in the water?

d. He doesn’t know the homework.

e. Somu is a wonderful child.

f. How do you stop a mad elephant?

g. Do you come here often?

h. She should follow the orders. 

Q3. Circle the correct helping verb in each sentence.

1) Mandy (do, does) want to volunteer for the fundraiser.

2) Jessica (have, has) always got good grades.

3) Marcus (was, were) mowing the lawn when I got there.

4) I (have, has, had) to wash the dishes before I can go.

5) My brother (is, am, are) going to be six years old tomorrow.

6) I (is, am, are) working on my science fair project.

7) I (do, does, did) go to Disneyland last year.

8) Carlos and Jamal (is, are) arguing about the game.

9) My friend (have, has, had) already left for school when I called.

10) We (is, am, are) playing softball on Saturday.

Q4 .Find the helping verbs and the main verbs in the sentences. Write HV above the helping verb, and MV above the main verb.

1. We are going to the mall tomorrow.

2. We have not finished our study of the solar system.

3. Everyone had quietly gone to bed.

4. It must have rained all night.

5. We are going out for dinner after the play.

6. I was writing a story at my desk.

7. My brother is running in the track meet.

8. Kate and I have never skated inthe park.

9. The small plane landed in the field.

10. My Dad will go to Florida in April.

Q1. Complete the sentences with have/has been + the ‘ing’ form if the verb given in brackets:

1. Sara (watch) ___________________________ T.V. for the past four hours.

2. I (prepare)_______________________________ for the project for the past two weeks. I wish to bag a prize.

3. My brother (write)________________________________ stories since he was a child. I enjoy reading them.

4. Mahesh (reside)___________________________________in Hyderabad for five years. He loves the place.

5. Mohit(play) _____________________________ Tennis since 1965. He wants to be a champion.

Q2. Complete the sentences with the right form of the verbs in brackets.

1. My mother ______________________ (conduct) dancing classes since March this year.

2. Amit’s clothes are covered with grease. He _______________________ (repair) the car.

3. I met Sachin Tendulkar this evening. I __________________ (long) to meet him since I was a child.

4. The house is neat and looking good. Mother________________ (clean) the house.

Q3. Complete the sentences with the right phrases from the box given below.

For my sake, once upon a time, in a few hours, now and then

1. _________________________ there lived a king who had many palaces.

2. It is only ________________________ that he has completed his task.

3. The match will start ___________________________________

4. I have been meeting him___________________________________

Q4. Add ‘ous’ or ‘ity’ to these words. Make changes in spelling.

1. severe ____________ 2. fame _________________

3. continue ___________________ 4. adverse ________________

Q5. Read the instructions given below for making a decorative hanging fish.

1. First draw three fishes on a thick board and cut them with scissors.

2. Then take a few ice-cream sticks and break each stick into two.

3. Next paste the ice-cream sticks to the sides of the fish to act as fins of the fish.

4. After this colour the fish with poster colours.

5. Finally punch holes at the top and bottom of each fish to weave a thread around them.

Now use the phrases given below for sequencing and form your paragraph.

The first thing you do is, after that….., the next step is to …., in the end…..
______________________________________________________
______________________________________________________
 

Q6. Frame sentences with the following words:

1. difficulty:__________________________________________________________

2. refuse:____________________________________________________________

3. flap:______________________________________________________________

4. gobble:____________________________________________________________

5. worry:_____________________________________________________________

Q.1 Fill in the blanks with the simple present form of the verb.

a) The moon _____ brightly on full moon day ( shine )

b) The duck ______ in water .( swim )

c) The sweeper ______ the floor.( sweep )

d) The sun _____ in the east . ( rise )

e) The sum of two odd numbers _____ even .( be)

f) Rita _____ gets good marks ( always )

Q.2 Fill in the blanks with simple past tense form of the verb

a) Snow _____ on the mountains .( fall )

b) Water _____ in the taps ( freeze )

c) Rahul ______ in all the subjects .( pass )

d) Radha ______ very well ( sing )

e) I ______ this saree from the sale ( buy )

Q.3 Rewrite the following sentences changing them from the present tense to the past tense .

a) Rahul works very hard.

b) Nisha cooks delicious rice.

c) I play tennis.

Q.4 Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verbs given in the brackets.

a) This quilt _______ ( keep ) me warm during the night .

b) I ______ ( pray ) everyday for your success .

c) He looks sleepy as he _____ ( sleep ) late last night .

d) My grandmother _____ ( go ) for a walk everyday

e) Our team ______ ( play ) very well in the match .

1. Circle the right verbs so that they agree with their subjects.

a. These children’s mother (has, have) not come today for meeting.

b. February, the shortest month of the year (comes, come) before March.

c. Monkeys are naughty. They often (make, makes) faces at us.

d. The sailor with the wooden leg (lives, live) in this cottage.

e. All the boys in our school (play, plays) football every evening.

f. A squirrel (eat, eats) nuts. Parrots (love, loves) green chillies.

g. Ben and Tom (was, were) intimate friends.

h. All the women in our village (help, helps) their husbands in their fields.'

2. Underline the subjects. Then complete each sentence with the right verb form, so that each verb agrees with its subject.

a. Harry, the tallest of all the boys in our class _________ very strong.

b. Some of the beads ________ missing.

c. Kity, Lila and Rita ____________ passed in the examination.

d. The book which I bought yesterday __________ in my bag.

e. That woman with four children _________ my aunt.

f. Most of the girls __________ selected for the dance.

3. Rewrite these sentences using quotation marks, commas, question marks and exclamation marks. Use capital letters where necessary.

a. The teacher said time is money.
________________________________________________________________

b. She asked will you still be my friend. ________________________________________________________________

c. I am tired of this life he said.
________________________________________________________________

d. When did you lose your pencil asked mary i lost it on my way to school answered jill. _____________________________________________________

e. She said I can come today, but not tomorrow.
________________________________________________________________

4. Make compound adjective by matching column A and column B. Then describe the words given
   A              B
part           flow
part           flow                   1. a monster-_________________________
green        behaved            2. a boy-_____________________________
well           headed              3. a worker-__________________________
over          time                   4. river-_____________________________
bald          eyed                  5. a man-_____________________________
 

5. Write the meaning:
a. gushing-_______________________________________________________.
b. landscape-_____________________________________________________.
c. stand out-_____________________________ d. entire- ________________.
 

6. Frame Sentences.
a. landscape-_____________________________________________________.
b. journey-_______________________________________________________.
c. gushing-_______________________________________________________.
d. pleasant-______________________________________________________.
e. entire- ________________________________________________________.

A helping verb is a verb that helps the main verb express an action or make a statement. Forms of the helping verb be are used with the present participle.

            SINGULAR                                PLURAL

I am memorizing my lines.           We are memorizing our lines.

You are memorizing your lines.    You are memorizing your lines.

She is memorizing her lines.        They are memorizing their lines.

I was memorizing my lines.          We were memorizing our lines.

You were memorizing your lines.  You were memorizing your lines.

He was memorizing his lines.       They were memorizing their lines.

Forms of the helping verb have are used with the past participle of a main verb.

          SINGULAR                           PLURAL

I have visited Florida.           We have visited Florida.

You have visited Florida.      You have visited Florida.

He has visited Florida.          They have visited Florida.

I had visited Florida.             We had visited Florida.

You had visited Florida.        You had visited Florida.

She had visited Florida.        They had visited Florida.
 

• Exercise 1 Underline the helping verb in each sentence.

Lenore and her father are watching the basketball game.

1. Carol has helped her brother with his homework.

2. The three friends were pedaling uphill slowly.

3. Steven had started a new project.

4. Lee is steering the orange canoe.

5. Both girls are riding red bicycles.

6. Lisa had removed her helmet.

7. Andrew was sliding into home plate.

8. No one had practiced.

9. She is hoping to set a new record.

10. Carlos was wearing a blue jacket.

11. Loren had tried to call three times.

12. He has waited all week for this moment.

13. Tova’s father is watching from the car.

14. The three of them were meeting for pizza.

15. Nadim has trained the puppy to sit.

16. Each player had hit the tennis ball twice.

17. My mother is helping us with the new song.

18. Tom had cleaned all the windows before lunch.

19. We have seen this movie twice.

20. Anna has kept her opinion a secret.
 

• Exercise 2 Draw one line under the helping verb and two lines under the main verb in each sentence.

My great-aunt Marta is learning about herbs.

1. She has loved cooking for many years.

2. She has used herbs in her recipes.

3. She has grown parsley and chives on windowsills.

4. Now she is starting an herb garden.

5. Her garden is expanding slowly.

6. Every spring, she has added two or three plants.

7. Marta’s neighbor, Irene, was teaching her what to plant where.

8. Irene has shared many plants from her own garden.

9. Now Marta has planted a dozen or so different herbs.

10. Mint has appeared near the water faucet.

11. Garlic is growing by the fence.

12. Marta had arranged her garden by color.

13. Violet flowers are blooming right now.

14. Bees are hovering over the chives.

15. Lavender is filling the air with a sweet scent.