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Read the paragraph below. Circle all the helping verbs you can find.
The floor was swept and watered, the lamps were trimmed, fuel was heaped upon the fire; and the warehouse was as snug, and warm, and dry, and bright a ball-room. In came a fiddler and went up to the lofty desk, in came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile, in came all the young men and women employed in the business, in came the housemaid, the baker, the cook, the milkman.
Verb phrases are formed by one main verb and one or more helping or auxiliary verbs.
Example:
I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one. have= auxiliary verb
seen= main verb
Underline the verb phrase in each sentence.
1. I have been to a party.
2. I believe that it has done me good.
3. He was reconciled to what had happened.
4. Another idol has displaced me.
5. This pleasantry was received with a general laugh.
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In occasions a verb phrase may be separated, this means there are other words between the main verb and the helping verbs.