Helping Verbs (Sing to the tune of “Jingle Bells”) Helping verbs, helping verbs, There are 23, Is, am, are, was and were , Being, been and be Have, has, had, do, does, did Shall, will, should and would. There are five more helping verbs. May, might, must, can, could . Think about the ‘ing’ forms of verbs and their dependence on the helping verbs .