By Difference between, Auxiliaries

Present Perfect is formed with the auxiliary have and the past participle of some verb: have seen, has done, have lived. Present Perfect Progressive is formed with the auxiliaries have and been and the present participle of some verb: have been seeing, has been doing, has been living.CJ

Hi I have read so much about modals and this is still a grey area of grammar to me. Need is a semi-modal, which combines the qualities of auxiliaries and 'normal' verbs. OK. Examples: I needn't have gone to work (was unnecessary, still I did) I did not need to go to work (was unnecessary,...

Hi, Could you help me to distinguish (what is the difference between these...?) these two confused sentences? Before you do, please explain clearly. Thank you. 1. I did play. 2. I played. Both are OK, although you would usually say #2 instead of #1. Various tenses involve both main and...

Ok,I started to listen to more complicated stuff (movies), and... I have trouble! I can't hear the sounds, I can't hear the syllablles. I notice strange features... Ok, let's get started. Here's some important points, I just need some advice about them, some comments on them. You will need to...

<To use any other form of write with a defective auxiliary is always wrong, except for reductions like: He will have. Looks extremely simple to me! If English were an arttificial language, I can't imagine how anyone could possibly make this simpler without adding considerably to the ambiguity...

<They are similar to other Germanic languages in structure and as there are only two infinitives in English (and in Swedish, for that matter), the modals or defective auxiliaries are very easy and simple to learn. They have no inflections for different grammatical persons, which is also...

The questions are as follows: "A lot of progress was made" which one is better? These are all questions of personal preference and taste. All the choices are grammatically correct. It would be only be a waste of time to argue for one or another choice in most of these cases. (The only...

Hello and welcome to my thread. My English teacher has corrected a translation of mine, and while I don't doubt her abilities, I would like a second opinion. The questions are as follows: "A lot of progress was made" which one is better? Thanks beforehand, Ben.

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...