No. Could and would are called modal verbs.
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Yes, "could" and "would" are considered helping or auxiliary verbs in English. They are used to show possibility, ability, or to form conditional statements.
am,is,are was,were, been have,has, had do,does,did,done There is also the modal auxiliary verbs will, would can,could may,might shall, should must
Some common auxiliary verbs in English include "be," "have," "do," "will," "would," "should," "can," "could," "may," "might," "must," and "shall." These verbs are used with main verbs to create different tenses, moods, and voices.
Some common helping verbs in English include: be, do, have, can, may, shall, will, must, could, might, should, would, ought, and used. These verbs are used in conjunction with main verbs to express various tenses, moods, and aspects.
All 23 of the helping verbs are: am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been, do, did, does, has, had, have, will, shall, may, might, must, could, would, should, and can.
Such verbs in English as called weak verbs. Those that form the past tense by changing a vowel (or vowels) in the root word are called strong verbs.On that view, examples of weak verbs are walk/walked; open/opened; spill/spilled. Examples of strong verbs are run/ran; think/thought; seek/sought. Some verbs have both forms currently in use. An example is dive/dived-dove. The issue of strong versus weak verbs is a bit more detailed than that. For more information about strong and weak verbs, see www.bartleby.com/68/73/5773.html Some grammarians call weak verbs "regular," strong verbs "irregular." Other grammarians reserve he terms "regular" and "irregular" for another system of verb classification. The strong-weak contrast is the basis of an old story of an Arkansas farmer who said, "I knew he knowed me when I seed he shuv his hand outen the winduh and wuv at me."