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    This document discusses verbs and auxiliary verbs. It defines auxiliary verbs as verbs that help other verbs. It provides examples of verbs using auxiliary verbs to form future and past tenses, questions and negatives. Additional examples show auxiliary verbs being used with verbs ending in "ing", passive verbs, and infinitive verbs. The document concludes with an exercise asking the reader to create sentences using various verb constructions.

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    This document discusses verbs and auxiliary verbs. It defines auxiliary verbs as verbs that help other verbs. It provides examples of verbs using auxiliary verbs to form future and past tenses, questions and negatives. Additional examples show auxiliary verbs being used with verbs ending in "ing", passive verbs, and infinitive verbs. The document concludes with an exercise asking the reader to create sentences using various verb constructions.

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    This document discusses verbs and auxiliary verbs. It defines auxiliary verbs as verbs that help other verbs. It provides examples of verbs using auxiliary verbs to form future and past tenses, questions and negatives. Additional examples show auxiliary verbs being used with verbs ending in "ing", passive verbs, and infinitive verbs. The document concludes with an exercise asking the reader to create sentences using various verb constructions.

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    Verbs: 3

    VERBS MAY CONSIST OF MORE THAN ONE WORD.

    Look again at this sentence:

    Verbs may consist of more than one word.

    This is an example of a sentence where the verb (underlined) is made up of


    more than one word. The main part of the verb is consist, but it is helped out
    by the verb may. The whole verb is may consist.

    Verbs like may which help other verbs are called AUXILIARY VERBS.

    Let’s look at the uses of auxiliary verbs.

    A. FUTURE TENSES
    When verbs form their future tenses (when they describe what will
    happen in the future) they often need the auxiliary verbs shall and will.
    Examples:
    I shall see you again tomorrow.(Short form: I’ll see you tomorrow.)
    The train will be late. (Short form: The train’ll be late.)

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    B. PAST TENSES
    When verbs form some past tenses (when they describe actions
    which took place in the past) they use has, have or had as the
    auxiliary verb.
    Examples:
    Tom has lost his key.
    We have visited the museum.
    Had the bus left the garage?

    C DID and DOES can be used as auxiliary verbs when asking questions, or
    in negative sentences (ones which include the word not)
    Examples:
    Did you speak to him, and does he know the way?
    My client doesn’t steal, and he didn’t take that jewellery.

    D COULD, WOULD, SHOULD, MIGHT and MUST are auxiliary verbs.


    Examples:
    I could do that.
    You would arrive by nine o’clock
    I should receive the letter tomorrow.
    Jim might remember the telephone number.
    We must find that library book.

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    When could, would, should, might and must are used to talk about the past,
    the verb consists of at least three words. One is the main part of the
    verb, and the other two words are auxiliary verbs.
    Examples
    I could have done that.
    You must have seen him there.

    E Verbs ending in ING


    Some present tense verbs (verbs that describe actions that are
    taking place now) and some past tense verbs are made by adding – ing
    to the main verb, and adding one or more auxiliary verbs before the
    main verb.
    Examples
    I am finishing my breakfast.
    We have been fishing all day.
    They had been walking in the rain.

    F PASSIVE VERBS
    These verbs are used to indicate that someone has something done
    to them, rather than that they do something themselves.
    Examples:
    John was admitted to hospital after the accident.
    His friends were treated in the casualty department.
    All of them had been injured.

    Auxiliary verbs are used in all of these examples.

    Passive verbs might also be used to indicate that an object has


    something done to it.
    Example:
    The book was bound in leather by the bookbinder. PTO/…
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    G INFINITIVES are verbs which have to in front of them.

    Examples:
    To sound the alarm, press the red button.
    He did the course in order to gain a St John’s Ambulance qualification.

    Auxiliary verbs like need and ought are often used with infinitives.

    Examples:
    I need to do it and you ought to help me.
    They ought to walk in the park as they need to get some fresh air.

    Exercise 1
    Make up your own sentences using:

    1) the future tense with an auxiliary verb

    2) The past tense with an auxiliary verb.

    3) A verb and the auxiliary verb did

    4) A verb and the auxiliary verb does

    5) A verb with the auxiliary verb must

    6) A verb with the auxiliary verbs could have

    7) A past tense verb ending in ing with an auxiliary verb

    8) A passive verb in a sentence about a person

    9) A passive verb in a sentence about an object

    10) An infinitive verb

    11) An infinitive verb with the auxiliary verb ought.

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