Sentence examples for auxiliary verbs from inspiring English sources

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.

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

At times, of course, the actors have help from Shakespeare, whose rhythm and meaning -- if not his auxiliary verbs -- have time-traveled well.

I have even overcome my Germanic directness, have tripled my use of auxiliary verbs such as "may", "would" and "could" and have adapted to standards of British politeness.

There is also an issue of language involved, as the attribution of guilt hangs on the finest linguistic discriminations, in particular on auxiliary verbs.

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

They begin to flesh out their noun-verb sentences with less critical words such as prepositions, conjunctions, articles, and auxiliary verbs.

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".