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Auxiliary verb   /ɑgzˈɪljəri vərb/   Listen
Auxiliary verb

noun
1.
A verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with.



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modal auxiliary verb


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... in the later stages of the language it is hardly ever used, except in negative, interrogative, and dependent sentences, and in certain tenses of the verb to be. Even when it is used, it is more frequently the inflected form of an auxiliary verb with the infinitive or participle ...
— A Handbook of the Cornish Language - chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature • Henry Jenner


Words linked to "Auxiliary verb" :   modal verb, verb, modal, modal auxiliary


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