Widely acknowledged verbs that can serve as auxiliaries in English and many related languages are the equivalents of be to express passive voice, and have (and sometimes be) to express perfect aspect or past time reference. The auxiliary verbs of a language form a closed class, i.e., there is a fixed, relatively small number of them. The auxiliary is said to "help" the infinitive. They generally appear together with an infinitive. Auxiliaries like these typically appear with a full verb that carries the main semantic content of the clause.Īuxiliary verbs typically help express grammatical tense, aspect, mood, and voice. These auxiliaries help express a question, show tense/aspect, or form passive voice. – être, from which sommes is inflected, 'be' is an auxiliary used to build the passive voice in French. I have seen the sun = 'I have seen the sun/I saw the sun.' g. – avoir, from which ai is inflected, 'have' is an auxiliary used to build the perfect tense/aspect in French. She is to home gone = 'She went home/She has gone home.' f. – sein, from which ist is inflected, 'be' is an auxiliary used with movement verbs to build the perfect tense/aspect in German. That became many times said = 'That was said many times.' e. – werden, from which wurde is inflected, become is an auxiliary used to build the passive voice in German. (I) have grabbed your pencil = 'I have taken your pencil.' d.
– he is an auxiliary accompanying the infinitive coger, used here to form a verb phrase, the perfect present in Spanish. – have, from which has is inflected, is an auxiliary used in expressing the perfect aspect of give.
Do you want tea? – do is an auxiliary accompanying the infinitive, want, used here to form a question – see do-support. 3.3 Diagnostics for identifying auxiliary verbs in Englishīelow are some sentences that contain representative auxiliary verbs from English, Spanish, German and French, with the auxiliary verb marked in bold:Ī.3.2 List of Auxiliaries Unique to African American Vernacular English.
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