Active voice verbs can appear on their own and do not require "be" as a helping verb. When an active verb does have "be" as a helping verb, the main verb will end in "ing." Robert Hills designed [no ...

An auxiliary verb, also called a helping verb, is a verb that is used with another verb (or two other verbs) in a verb phrase. Lo he dicho. - I said it. Ha escrito una carta a su novio.

When you talk about something that happens regularly or describe what something does or is doing, then you use the present tense. The first part of the verb you need to learn is the infinitive.