Helping Verbs. AM/IS/WAS/ARE/WERE 1. Use the “was” or “am” with “I” This is the helping verbs 2. Use the “was” or “is” with “he” “she” and “it” and singular nouns This is the helping verbs 3. Use the “were” or “are” with “we”, “you” and “they” and plural nouns This is the helping verbs 4. When we use the “helping verbs” The verbs ends with ‘ing.”