Hi, In the sentence: I really should go home to my wife, but I need to see the deviltry! Question: Is 'should' a helping verb to 'go'? 'Should' is a modal auxiliary verb and Is 'need' a helping verb to

Hi Anon: If you look in any English language reference book under verb tenses, you will find the answer to your question. "be" is a helping verb (auxilliary) for the passive voice of verbs, and "have" is the helping verb for

At times it has been frustrating living in the shadow of Victoria to the point that you want them to have a fight. Analysis of athe above sentence: -- Noun phrase = At times, it At times = form:Prepositional phrase Function:adverbial

There are a series of conflicts that run throughout this story, the most important being Trujillo’s abuse of his dictatorship over the country; an external conflict between Trujillo and society. There are a series of conflicts =main clause

. 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

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

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

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.

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