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Spectator Competition: Space to think
The Spectator 10 Oct 2024
Competition 3370 invited poems about the predicament of the Nasa astronauts stranded on the ISS – thanks to Paul Freeman for this suggestion ... Five miles a second, travelling at speed, ... Outside! ... To conjugate its verbs,. Or saunter through auxiliaries ... .
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Kids need the pressure of times tables and grammar – that’s what school is for
AOL 02 Sep 2024
But the modal verbs do take the biscuit. It’s just so perfect that these auxiliary verbs expressing necessity or possibility (both deeply off-message in our “can’t do” society) should be among the first to be phased out.
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How to form our negative sentences correctly
The Manila Times 14 Feb 2024
And when the negating job has to be done within a statement, "no" often takes the form of "not," commanders the auxiliary verb "do" (in the required tense) and positions itself right between it and the action verb's bare infinitive form.
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5 quirks we found using AI to translate text into Gaeilge
RTE 06 Dec 2023
Autonomous verb forms tend to express an action where the actor is not known or not relevant to the discussion, while constructions with the auxiliary bí 'be' tend to express a state.
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Still baffled when to use 'can' or 'could' and 'will' or 'would'?
The Manila Times 22 Nov 2023
They are distinct grammatical forms called modal auxiliaries or modals, and they work in tandem with a given verb to convey varying shades of necessity, advice, ability, expectation, permission, possibility, or conditionality.
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Puzzling usage prescriptions for 'used to"'
The Manila Times 14 Sep 2023
In both cases, we're not in any danger of tripping in our grammar because "used to" is clearly functioning as it should — as an auxiliary verb affirming the sense of a state of affairs or past action that no longer subsists.
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Michael Frayn at 90: a miscellany of the satirical columnist’s finest moments
The Observer 08 Sep 2023
9 October 1957 ... For 20 minutes nothing happened ... “Hat do du wish?” ... It was 11.30am ... 2 January 1959 ... We see ... But it’s increasingly a wrong-stress occupation, as the stress is shifted off the significant word in cabin announcements on to the auxiliary verb ... .
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Thomas: Back to what type of school?
Vail Daily 19 Aug 2023
As millions of children return to public school, it’s a good idea to again examine what they are being taught and what is being left out ... It is not ... antecedent, tense, object, conjugation, auxiliary verb, expletive, reflexive pronoun.” ... .
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The Grammar Guy: Playing a game of question tag
Bennington Banner 07 Aug 2023
The question tag uses the same verb if the initial statement uses an auxiliary verb (like do, be, or have) or a modal verb (like could, may, or shall).
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The Berkshire Eagle
04 Aug 2023
Curtis Honeycutt: Playing a game of question tag
The Berkshire Eagle
04 Aug 2023
The question tag uses the same verb if the initial statement uses an auxiliary verb (like do, be, or have) or a modal verb (like could, may, or shall).
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Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
01 Aug 2023
Question tags just add to fun, don't they?
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
01 Aug 2023
The question tag uses the same verb if the initial statement uses an auxiliary verb (like “do,” “be” or “have”) or a modal verb (like “could,” “may” or “shall”).
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The disputable validity of some 'used to + verb' usage
The Manila Times 07 Jun 2023
In both cases, we're hardly in any danger of tripping in our grammar because "used to" is clearly functioning as it should — as an auxiliary verb affirming the sense of a past action or state of affairs that had already ceased.
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