By Auxiliaries, helping verbs

.There is no main verb in B, so it is a fragment. A and C have main verbs (must remain, was being). As Leo says, an -ing form cannot form a complete sentence by itself-- it needs an auxiliary or main verb.

Hi, Before you can understand the answers to your homework exercise, you need to be able to understand simpler examples. Look at these sentences. 1. Mary cooks dinner. 2. Mary does not cook dinner. 3. Does Mary cook dinner? 4. What does Mary cook? In 2, 3, and 4, 'does' is called an...

Hi, You can use 'like' in various ways, such as these. eg adjective Coke is like Pepsi. Coke is not like lemonade. When you use 'like' as an adjective, don't use 'do'. eg verb My sisters like Coke. My brothers don't ( ie do not) like Coke. 'Do' is used as the auxiliary/helping verb with 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...

CalifJim wrote: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 Noooooo way. It is a finite verb phrase whose first verb is an auxiliary. EG: I have been ill. (H)ave is an auxiliary here,...

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 eat, I did eat. Best wishes, Clive

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

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 it, I’ll never speak to you...

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 do not change form and they add modality to the...

Milky wrote: Anonymous wrote:In the sentence, "She has to eat salad every day," would "has to" be a helping verb for the action verb "eat?" Initially "to eat" looks like an infinitive, but isn't "has to" another way of saying "must," which would make it a helping verb? Thanks! "Have/has/had...