What is an Auxiliary verb:
Auxiliary verbs are also called helping/supporting verbs which help the main verb to express its meaning more profoundly.
There are no types or kinds of auxiliary verbs but there are 3 forms of it. They are:
1. Be,
2. Do
3. Have.
We will see the whole classifications of these 3 types of auxiliary verbs so that we can understand how it works. Although there are modal verbs which also work as auxiliary verbs, we have an entire page classification on modal verbs to know them in a better way. So let’s see our basic auxiliary verbs:-
Be verb:
There are also various types of be verbs but usually we use 10 of them:
1. Am—–(We use am after “I” such as: I am a human).
2. Is —–(Used in present tense singular number/ e.g he is a doctor).
3.Are—–(Used in present tense plural number e.g they are going for a party).
4. Was—–(Used in past tense singular number e.g He was a good student).
5. Were—–(Used in past tense plural number e.g they were feeling cold).
6. Shall—–(Used in future tense mostly singular numbers e.g I shall do my homework tomorrow).
7. Will—–(Mostly used in future tense singular and plural numbers but also as a determination that someone has the enthusiasm to do something in the future e.g. I will be a doctor when I grow up).
8. Be—–(It is commonly used in future tense after “will” e.g He will be a pilot. But it has other usages too).
9. Been—–(Used in perfect continuous tenses e.g I might have been doing this for a long time. Has other usages too).
10. Being—–(Used in present or continuous tense e.g. he is being nice).
Do verb:
Unlike the “be” verb, it has only 3 types like:
1. Do—–(Used in present tense e.g I have to do this).
2. Did—–(Used in past tense e.g I did my homework yesterday).
3. Does—–(Used for 3rd person singular number e.g he does the work).
Have verb:
Have verb also has 3 types:
1. Have—–(Used in present tense e.g I have to do this. Also works for plural numbers except “I”)
2. Has—–(Used for present tense third-person singular number e.g He has to go to school)
3. Had—–(Used with every person, singular and plural both in past tense e.g he had to go, I had to go, they had to go).
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