An auxiliary verb helps the main (full) verb and is also called a "helping verb." With auxiliary verbs, you can write sentences in different tenses, moods, or voices. Auxiliary verbs are: be, do, have, will, shall, would, should, can, could, may, might, must, ought, etc.
The verb forms of be, do, and have can be used either as a main (full) verb or an auxiliary verb. The following examples show these verbs used as auxiliary verbs.
Q. Identify all auxiliary verbs in the following paragraph.
I have just heard that you didn’t attend the meeting yesterday. Did you have a conflict with that time? I must ask that you explain the reason.
I have just heard that you didn’t attend the meeting yesterday. Did you have a conflict with that time? I must ask that you explain the reason.
Q. Which of the following sentences does not show any auxiliary verbs?
(i) I didn’t have any reason to go there.
(ii) Have we practiced this song enough?
(iii) Three seats have been reserved for us.
(iv) I am a professor in the economics department.
Sentence 4 (the verb am is used as the main verb)
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