To be honest, I was among the learners who were taught the word "auxiliary" which are used interchangeably with "modal". If this is not messy enough, some books / references even called them "helping verbs".

Could you tell me when to use just, yet, alredy, ever and never with the Present Perfect Tense. I know where to put these adverbs in a sentence (at the end of a sentence OR between the helping verb and the main verb), but I am not sure which of

Hi Anon, BrE = British English.

Once again, I went to a grammar site and read the "lays" "lies" rules and apparently, either they were confused or I didn't understand what they were telling me. Maybe I need to find a different language You lay down the

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

Hi Anon: You can ask: What does it do? What is its function? How does it work? In English, you can make a statement with a helping verb: He works. --> He does work. "do" is a helping verb, and it agrees with the subject,

The version of English I'm used to does not permit this. I'm from California. I think that in our dialect, the only time you can make a contraction using "have" is when "have" is used as a helping verb. For example,

Hi Redalert, and welcome to English Forums. How Money Works -- This is a title. This is how money works. -- This is a sentence. Both are okay in the right conrext. My name is ABC. I live in the US and am studying English. In

Which one of the following is correct and why? How money works. This is how money works. My name is ABC. I live in the US and am studying English. In the sentence written above, is it ok to ommit the pronoun "I" and continue the

Now, as for your second question... Past simple vs. Present perfect. First know this. English only has 2 tenses! even though most people think it has many more. The two tenses are present, and past. The other aspects are created using combinations