Sophia Learning
Sophia: Present Perfect
This lesson introduces the present perfect tense and how it is used. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Present Perfect Continuous
This lesson introduces the present perfect continuous tense and how it is used. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Auxiliary Verbs
This video lesson focuses on auxiliary verbs including defining the term auxiliary, providing examples, and explaining their three purposes: to create shades of meaning, passive tense, and emphasis.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Auxiliary Verbs
This slideshow lesson focuses on auxiliary verbs including the definition, examples, and purposes.
Towson University
Towson University: Online Writing Support: Verbs
This entry focuses on types of verbs and their functions including action, auxiliary, linking, regular and irregular, transitive and intransitive, and indicative, imperative, and subjunctive mood. It explains and provides examples of each.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Auxiliary (Helping) Verbs
Is the underlined verb the main verb in the sentence, or is it helping the main verb?
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Modal Verbs
The modal verbs of English are really powerful; you can use them to ask for permission, give advice, determine how likely something is, and many other things besides! Test your knowledge of the modals!
English Page
Language Dynamics: Modal Verb Tutorial
An explanation of modal verbs and examples of how they are used in sentences. Includes links to seven exercises and a final test.
English Page
Language Dynamics: Modal Verbs Exercise 1
Practice your skills with modal verbs by filling in the blanks with the correct verb choice for these twenty sentences.
English Page
Language Dynamics: Modal Verbs Exercise 2
Practice your skills with modal verbs by filling in the blanks with the correct verb choice (must or have to) for these fifteen sentences.
English Page
Language Dynamics: Modal Verbs Exercise 3
Practice your skills with modal verbs by filling in the blanks with the correct verb choice (might, must, should and could, ought to, have to) for these fifteen sentences.
English Page
Language Dynamics: Modal Verbs Exercise 4
Practice your skills with modal verbs by filling in the blanks with the correct verb choice (couldn't or might not) for these twenty sentences.
English Page
Language Dynamics: Modal Verbs Exercise 6
Practice your skills with modal verbs by filling in the blanks with the correct verb choice (could, might, should, would) for these three short dialogues.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Helping Verbs
To introduce the idea of "helping" verbs, which may be part of verb strings or phrases, and how they add important shades of meaning. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content. Additional web sites are...
Fun Brain
Fun Brain: Grammar Bees
A game that reinforces understanding of the present and past tenses of the verb to be.
Capital Community College Foundation
Guide to Grammar and Writing: Use of Modal Auxiliaries
Test your skills with modal verbs by filling in the blanks with the correct verb for these eleven sentences.
Other
Schoolhouse Rock: Verb: That's What's Happening
This site from Schoolhouse Rock provides a popular song favorite from the 1970s cartoon series that will help you remember what verbs are and how to recognize them. The lyrics are provided along with a picture.