By Tenses, Auxiliaries

Yoong Liat wrote: What is be? Is it simple Present tense form, Past Participle or what? According to the Collins Cobuild English Usage, be is the most common verb in English. It is used in many different ways. The present tense forms of 'be' are am, are and is, and the past tense forms are...

What is be? Is it simple Present tense form, Past Participle or what? According to the Collins Cobuild English Usage, be is the most common verb in English. It is used in many different ways. The present tense forms of 'be' are am, are and is, and the past tense forms are was and were. Be is...

Jackson6612 wrote:can,coud; will, would; shall, should; may, might; must and ought are auxiliary verbs. CB, I don't think they have infinitives, such as to shall, to may etc. CB said: ''There are two infintives in both the active and the passive voices in English.'' What are these two...

can,coud; will, would; shall, should; may, might; must and ought are auxiliary verbs. CB, I don't think they have infinitives, such as to shall, to may etc. CB said: ''There are two infintives in both the active and the passive voices in English.'' What are these two infinitives? Your teacher...

Jackson6612 wrote:I hope this sentence is correct. Your teacher may have discussed the sequence of tenses. Can we use might in place of may? If we cannot do that then please let me know the reason. Your teacher might have discussed the sequence of tenses. Hi Jackson 6612All defective...

Verb = swim Swam = past simple tense. Refers to actions/events in past time. "She swam a kilometre yesterday." No connection with present time. Swum = past participle. Used to form the pefect tense with auxiliary verb "have" - have/has/had + past participle = perfect tense. Note the...

Could is the past tense of can. These two words are among the many that form a class of MAV modal auxiliary verbs called the ‘pure’modals. AV’s (Auxiliary verbs) are helping verbs that help the main verbs to convey additional information. MAV’s are a type of AV. MAV’s help to convey shades of...

I've come back for good. I've means I have. After auxiliary have use the past participle, no matter what the verb. The past participle of come is come. ____________________ I came back for good. Auxiliary have is not used here. came is the simple past tense of come. CJ

Noooooo way. has/have/had followed by a past participle would be called auxiliary verbs.I believe I see the point of confusion. The last word (verbs) refers only to has, have, and had, not also to the past participle which follows them! CJ

<Noooooo way. It is a finite verb phrase whose first verb is an auxiliary.> I think the poster meant to distinguish between "have"(full verb) and "have" (auxiliary). So, it's true that when has/have/had are followed by a p.p., they are being used as auxiliaries.