| Such words include pronouns, auxiliary verbs, conjunctions, and prepositions. |
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| When writing the rule, always use the base form of the main verb and any auxiliary verbs. |
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| It appears that the semi-modals are hybrid forms, combining characteristics of both main verbs and auxiliary verbs. |
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| He wrote a series of poems on grammar, for which he was a stickler, including one on auxiliary verbs. |
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| Syntactically, the modal auxiliary verbs discussed here appear below both epistemic adverbs and negation. |
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| Most of the functions of the old subjunctive have been taken over by auxiliary verbs like may and should, and the subjunctive survives only in very limited situations. |
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| These are less confined in their selectional restrictions than modal auxiliary verbs. |
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| They begin to flesh out their noun-verb sentences with less critical words such as prepositions, conjunctions, articles, and auxiliary verbs. |
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| Another major systemic change was to the future tense, remodelled in Vulgar Latin with auxiliary verbs. |
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| Many languages, including English, use auxiliary verbs in constructing the passive voice. |
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| Definitions of auxiliary verbs are not always consistent across languages, or even among authors discussing the same language. |
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| The following table summarizes the auxiliary verbs in standard English and the meaning contribution to the clauses in which they appear. |
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| Many auxiliary verbs are listed more than once in the table based upon discernible differences in use. |
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| A third diagnostic that can be used for identifying auxiliary verbs is verb phrase ellipsis. |
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| In English, light verbs differ from auxiliary verbs in that they cannot undergo inversion and they cannot take not as a postdependent. |
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| Sometimes the distinction between auxiliary verbs and light verbs is overlooked or confused. |
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| Most clauses contain at least one main verb, and they can contain zero, one, two, three, or perhaps even more auxiliary verbs. |
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| Futurity of action is expressed periphrastically with one of the auxiliary verbs will or shall. |
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| In clauses with auxiliary verbs they are the finite verbs and the main verb is treated as a subordinate clause. |
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| Viewing this sentence as consisting of a single finite clause, there are five auxiliary verbs and two main verbs present. |
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| This in particular is typical for modal auxiliary verbs, such as will and must. |
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| Other languages, such as Latin, are synthetic, which means they tend to express functional meaning with affixes, not with auxiliary verbs. |
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| Verbs have up to ten tenses, but Icelandic, like English, forms most of them with auxiliary verbs. |
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| English enclitics include the contracted versions of auxiliary verbs, as in I'm and we've. |
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| The auxiliary verbs may and let are also used often in the subjunctive mood. |
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| After the preceding classes of adverbial, only auxiliary verbs, not lexical verbs, participate in inversion. |
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| But Dreiser drops the auxiliary verbs while retaining the participles. |
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| There is also an issue of language involved, as the attribution of guilt hangs on the finest linguistic discriminations, in particular on auxiliary verbs. |
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| English syntax relies on auxiliary verbs for many functions including the expression of tense, aspect and mood. |
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| In spoken Welsh, verb inflection is indicated primarily by the use of auxiliary verbs rather than by the inflection of the main verb. |
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| English also has a rich set of auxiliary verbs, such as have and do, expressing the categories of mood and aspect. |
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| Verbs are conjugated for tense and mood, which can be indicated either by inflection of the main verb, or by the use of auxiliary verbs. |
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| Case is primarily marked using word order and prepositions, while certain verb features are marked using auxiliary verbs. |
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| Some syntacticians distinguish between auxiliary verbs and light verbs. |
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| There are also some properties that some but not all auxiliary verbs have. |
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| Some sentences contain a chain of two or more auxiliary verbs. |
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| The combination of SVO order and use of auxiliary verbs often creates clusters of two or more verbs at the centre of the sentence, such as he had hoped to try to open it. |
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| The literature on auxiliary verbs is somewhat inconsistent in this area. |
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| The auxiliary verbs are in bold and the main verb is underlined. |
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| The main verb scrutinized provides the semantic core of sentence meaning, whereby each of the auxiliary verbs contributes some functional meaning. |
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| From the point of view of predicates, each of the main verbs constitutes the core of a predicate, and the auxiliary verbs contribute functional meaning to these predicates. |
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| Auxiliary verbs such as have and be are paired with verbs in the infinitive, past, or progressive forms. |
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| Auxiliary verbs mark constructions such as questions, negative polarity, the passive voice and progressive aspect. |
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| Auxiliary verbs form main clauses, and the main verbs function as heads of a subordinate clause of the auxiliary verb. |
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| Auxiliary verbs typically help express grammatical tense, aspect, mood, and voice. |
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| Auxiliary verbs differ from other verbs in that they can be followed by the negation, and in that they can occur as the first constituent in a question sentence. |
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| Auxiliary verbs can introduce verb phrase ellipsis, but main verbs cannot. |
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