action verb,helping verbs and verb phrases underline the verb phrase in each sentence, he should have wanted the garden

Answer 1

In the sentence "He should have wanted the garden," the verb phrase is:

should have wanted

In this case, "should" is a modal auxiliary (helping verb), "have" is also a helping verb, and "wanted" is the main verb.

So, the complete verb phrase is underlined as follows:

He should have wanted the garden.