Hi, I have eaten. I have done. This is the Present Perfect tense. 'Have' is commonly called the 'auxiliary' verb. In class, I sometimes call it the 'helping verb'. Eaten/done are past participles. Other examples of auxiliaries are I will

has/have/had followed by a past participle would be called auxiliary verbs. To make it even simpler, some people call them helper or helping verbs. CJ

Hi, I need to write a sentence in the following pattern, and I don't see how it's possible. The pattern is: adjective + direct object + helping verb + subject + verb No articles allowed? So, something like 'Great strength did he use' .

I need help!! I need to write a sentence in the following pattern, and I don't see how it's possible. The pattern is: adjective + direct object + helping verb + subject + verb Can someone please help??

Here in this sentence 'have' as helping verb and had as the main verb.

But if you visit the following web page you'll see that American Heritage Book of English forbades the use of an infinitive in th first sentence since, to them, its a helping verb and can't be followed by "to". If you dare breathe a word about

You call them differently because they are different. Auxiliary verbs (also called Primary auxiliary verbs - to be, to have and to do) form tenses and show Aspect. They can also be lexical verbs and they can be inflected. Modal auxiliary verbs

Bamtori wrote: Thanks for your reply, Marius. With "last night" it is definately "had". Then how about leave out "last night" in the sentence. Which should I use, "we (have/had) some guys come in here and ransack the place."? When will this

A finite clause has a finite verb (the normal kind of verb in past, present, future, etc, which we use to make complete sentences). A nonfinite clause has a nonfinite verb: that is, (1) just a participle ( -ed, -ing ) without a helping verb; (2)

Anonymous wrote: Thinking smiley this is my big problem how to speak english plz help me In order to understand something said in English, first you should know the meaning of the words spoken, and of course the