Definition of Auxiliary verbs. Meaning of Auxiliary verbs. Synonyms of Auxiliary verbs

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Definition of Auxiliary verbs

Auxiliary verbs
Auxiliary Aux*il"ia*ry (?; 106), a. [L. auxiliarius, fr. auxilium help, aid, fr. augere to increase.] Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops. Auxiliary scales (Mus.), the scales of relative or attendant keys. See under Attendant, a. Auxiliary verbs (Gram.). See Auxiliary, n., 3.
Auxiliary verb
Verb Verb, n. [F. verbe, L. verbum a word, verb. See Word.] 1. A word; a vocable. [Obs.] --South. 2. (Gram.) A word which affirms or predicates something of some person or thing; a part of speech expressing being, action, or the suffering of action. Note: A verb is a word whereby the chief action of the mind [the assertion or the denial of a proposition] finds expression. --Earle. Active verb, Auxiliary verb, Neuter verb, etc. See Active, Auxiliary, Neuter, etc.

Meaning of Auxiliary verbs from wikipedia

- a chain of two or more auxiliary verbs. Auxiliary verbs are also called helping verbs, helper verbs, or (verbal) auxiliaries. Research has been conducted...
- English modal auxiliary verbs are can (with could), may (with might), shall (with should), will (with would), and must. A few other verbs are usually also...
- English auxiliary verbs are a small set of English verbs, which include the English modal auxiliary verbs and a few others.: 19 : 11–12  Although the...
- The following table lists modal verbs of standard English (some English modal auxiliary verbs, and some lexical verbs) and various senses in which they...
- periphrastically, using constructions with auxiliary verbs. Generally, the only inflected forms of an English verb are a third person singular present tense...
- up auxiliary verb or Appendix:English modal verbs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. This is a list of English auxiliary verbs, i.e. helping verbs, which...
- are produced, see English verbs. In English, verbs frequently appear in combinations containing one or more auxiliary verbs and a nonfinite form (infinitive...
- Romanian verbs Sanskrit verbs Sesotho verbs Slovene verbs Spanish verbs Tigrinya verbs Auxiliary verb Grammar Grammatical aspect Grammatical mood Grammatical...
- formed around a verb in the present or preterite form. In clauses with auxiliary verbs, they are the finite verbs and the main verb is treated as a subordinate...
- ****anese verbs, like the verbs of many other languages, can be morphologically modified to change their meaning or grammatical function – a process known...