English auxiliary verbs are a small set of English verbs, which include the English modal auxiliary verbs and a few others.: 19 : 11–12  Although the...

Appendix:English modal verbs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly...

a chain of two or more auxiliary verbs. Auxiliary verbs are also called helping verbs, helper verbs, or (verbal) auxiliaries. Research has been conducted...

up auxiliary verb or Appendix:English modal verbs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. This is a list of English auxiliary verbs, i.e. helping verbs, which...

Verbs constitute one of the main parts of speech (word classes) in the English language. Like other types of words in the language, English verbs are...

advice. Modal verbs generally accompany the base (infinitive) form of another verb having semantic content. In English, the modal verbs commonly used...

other auxiliary verbs also have contracted forms ('s, 're, 've, etc.). For full details of how these inflected forms of verbs are produced, see English verbs...

concerning verb usage, see English verbs. Most English irregular verbs are native, derived from verbs that existed in Old English. Nearly all verbs that have...

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have"). Most verbs use avoir as their auxiliary verb. The exceptions are all reflexive verbs and a number of verbs of motion or change of state, including...

declarative sentences (the canonical word order of English being subject–verb–object). The auxiliary verbs which may participate in such inversion (e.g. is...

not easy in English, and there is no clear boundary between the two non-finite verb forms. Auxiliary verbs typically occur as finite verbs, but they also...

of English words by country or language of origin List of collective nouns List of English auxiliary verbs List of English copulae List of English determiners...

Japanese verbs, like the verbs of many other languages, can be morphologically modified to change their meaning or grammatical function – a process known...

Most verbs of both types are regular, though various subgroups and anomalies do arise; however, textbooks for learners often class all strong verbs as irregular...

forms of verbs, ending in -ing, are always regular. In English, these are used as verbs, adjectives, and nouns.) In the case of modal verbs the present...

referred to as do-insertion or periphrastic do), in English grammar, is the use of the auxiliary verb do (or one of its inflected forms e.g. does), to form...

constructions, a modal verb or a certain type of auxiliary verb also may function as a finite verb. Modal verbs and auxiliary verbs mark the abovementioned...

they appear. Light verbs, however, are not auxiliary verbs, nor are they full verbs. Light verbs differ from auxiliary verbs in English insofar as they do...

is typical of verbs in virtually all languages, Spanish verbs express an action or a state of being of a given subject, and like verbs in most Indo-European...

order to distinguish phrasal verbs from verb phrases composed of a verb and a collocated preposition. Others include verbs with prepositions under the...

This table explains the conjugation of auxiliary Catalan verbs. The past, also called preterite, is rarely used in the spoken and written language and...

linguistics a lexical verb or main verb is a member of an open class of verbs that includes all verbs except auxiliary verbs. Lexical verbs typically express...

a limited number of verbs, or if it requires the specification of more than one principal part (as with the German strong verbs), views may differ as...

formed around a verb in the present or preterite form. In clauses with auxiliary verbs, they are the finite verbs and the main verb is treated as a subordinate...

negative particles and negative affixes, negative verbs play a role in various languages. The negative verb is used to implement a clausal negation. The negative...

infinitive), not knowing what to do. English grammar English verb tenses English auxiliary verbs English passive voice English subjunctive "Clause". Glossary...

stood a lamp". Subject–verb inversion is distinct from subject–auxiliary inversion because the verb involved is not an auxiliary verb.[citation needed] The...

they, there is no modification for verbs. For pronouns he, she, it, a suffix is added following these rules: For verbs that end in -o, -ch, -sh, -s, -x...

preterite-present verbs, which are continued in the English auxiliary verbs, e.g. can/could, shall/should, may/might, must. Weak verbs originally derived...