Pick out the verb phrases in the following sentences. Watch for the helping verbs.
I can understand his concern.
She must have told you ten times.
We shall go tomorrow.
The wind was howling all night.
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Last Friday, November 2, 2007 Chuck Swindoll on his radio program, Insight For Living, gave a sermon called Enjoying the Rewards. He talked about integrity. He gave several references. One was about David when he was young and God chose him to be the next king of Israel.
Psalm 78:70-72 (King James Version)
He chose David also his servant,
and took him from the sheepfolds:
From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people,
and Israel his inheritance.
So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart;
and guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.
–Even when David was young he was developing leadership skills. He was strong in integrity and honesty.
King David was a man of integrity and he taught his young son such things and his son, Solomon wrote many of the Proverbs:

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Mrs. Happy Housewife found a wonderful little website, Daily Dickinson. I just need to check it out everyday! My sister, Deena, and I like Emily Dickinson and her poetry. This gives me a great excuse to encourage my daughter to read Miss Dickinson’s simple and wholesome poems, daily, if she wants.
When I was in high school.

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When the darkness of the night slowly began to fade in the eastern sky. It looked as if all the colors of the sunrise were mixed together waiting to be separated into the colors that would make up a lovely sunrise and that would hopefully begin a new day just as lovely. Only the Artist and Creator, God Himself, can unmix colors like that.
Then when the new day’s colors began to appear, the remains of the gray settled on the horizon. Soon the drab would be burned away as the magnificent white sunlight showed itself and began to govern our new day.
I hope, like the sunrise that the old gray struggles of yesterday will quickly be burned away and bright, cheerful times will fill our new day.

Yesterday was a Catholic holiday. A holy day in which Saints are to be honored. It is called All Saints Day. Halloween (which is not an official American holiday) began and in it’s original naming was called All Hallow’s Eve.
But in modern day, All Saint’s Day has been mostly uncelebrated and Halloween has become one of the hugest money making celebration days of the year. Mrs. Happy Housewife celebrated All Saint’s Day yesterday with her children. She has a game on her site that you learn about people who followed after God and lived good and honorable lives.
Here is a list of them:

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All these little notorious verbs are screaming for a poem to be made about them!
Group 1:
is, am, are, was, were,
be, being, been
Group 2:
has, have, had
Group 3:
do, does, did
Group 4:
shall, will, should, would
Group 5:
may, might, must, can, could

There are certain words that you can always count on as verbs:
1. am
2. is
3. are
4. was
5. were
6. be
7. has
8. have
9. had
10. do
11. does
12. did
Basic Skills In English, Book 3; McDougal, Littell & Company, Evanston, Illinois; page 226; 1980.

Here’s a site called Home Schooling Unlimited. You can find methods of teaching. Worksheets for math and spelling games that help the student learn their word list and more too.

A. List the verbs or verb phrases in the sentences, and tell whether they are action verbs or state of being verbs. For extra credit, find the helping verbs.
1. Jim plays basketball.
2. They will return on the airplane.
3. Badger is a funny dog.
4. I have been here a long time.
5. I should have been playing the drum.
6. Go home.
B. List the 23 helping verbs.
Group 1 __________, __________, __________, __________,
__________, __________, __________, __________
Group 2 __________, __________, __________
Group 3 __________, __________, __________
Group 4 __________, __________, __________
Group 5 __________, __________, __________, __________, __________
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Today’s sunrise is full of autumnal colors. I wonder if these colors are the same in the summer and spring. A thin layer of dark grayish clouds rest above the horizon. A dark burnt orange rests at the bottom of the eastern sky and then blends to brighter fallish colors like a golden yellow that blends into a softer yellow and then white which then gently ends with the vast blue sky of the new day.