Sentence examples for auxiliary verb from inspiring English sources

An auxiliary verb occurs with a main verb that is in the form of an infinitive or a participle.

What's more, she used plain words, calling a noun a "name" and an auxiliary verb a "helping verb".

Because it introduces a hypothetical idea, "lest" normally takes the subjunctive, or occasionally an auxiliary verb like "should".

So a clue like "Have, say", which might be OWN or POSSESS, is actually AUXILIARY VERB here.

This article was amended on 1 September 2009, to restore a dropped auxiliary verb in the phrase "proof that he'd not be trouble".

Whereupon Tristram's father produces this paean to the auxiliary verb and its power to conjure what isn't there: A WHITE BEAR! Very well.

But Dreiser drops the auxiliary verbs while retaining the participles.

Functional words fall into categories such as articles, auxiliary verbs, conjunctions, high-frequency adverbs and so on.

He wrote a series of poems on grammar, for which he was a stickler, including one on auxiliary verbs.

English auxiliary verbs include the modal verbs, which may express such notions as possibility ("may," "might," "can," "could") or necessity ("must").

Particularly revealing of someone's individual style, Dr. Pennebaker noted, are what he called "junk words" like pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, particles and auxiliary verbs.