Auxiliary Verbs for beginners

auxiliary verbs verbs do be get have

Auxiliary verbs help the main verb to express tense or voice or help make questions and negative sentences. That's why they're also called 'helping verbs'.

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What Are Auxiliary Verbs?

Auxiliary verbs are helping verbs. They do not have separate meanings and are only used with other verbs to make questions, different tenses, etc. Here are the major auxiliary verbs in English:

using the auxiliary verb 'be'

Be

Be is one of the irregular verbs. It has several forms.

Subject	Present
I	am
He/She/It	is
We/You/They	are

Subject	Past
I/He/She/It	was
We/You/They	were

Present participle	Past participle
being	been

Do

Do is an irregular verb. It has different forms:

Subject	Present	Past
I/We/You/They	do	did
He/She/It	does	did

Present participle	Past participle
Doing	done

Have

Have is an irregular verb. It has three different forms:

Subject	Present	Past
I/We/You/They	have	had
He/She/It	has	had

Present participle	Past participle
Having	had

Verbs

Verbs are one of the most necessary elements to make a sentence. In fact, without a verb, we cannot have a meaningful sentence.

Regular and Irregular Verbs

Based on how we conjugate verbs in the past simple and the past participle, they can be divided into two types: Regular verbs and Irregular verbs.

Action and State Verbs

'I'm loving it!' or 'I love it!' Do you want to know which one of these famous advertisement mottos are correct? You got to learn about state and action verbs!

Phrasal Verbs

Phrasal verbs are used very commonly in English, even more so in informal situations. Phrasal verbs consist of a verb and a preposition or a particle.

Transitive and Intransitive Verbs

'She smiled beautifully'. 'She started a rumor'. One of these sentences has an intransitive verb and one has a transitive one. Want to know the difference?

Ditransitive Verbs

Ditransitive verbs are transitive verbs that take two objects. A direct object and an indirect object. Follow the article to read more about them.

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