Auxiliary
or Helping Verbs: Those
verbs are called Auxiliary verbs which are used to help main verbs. When following
verbs are used as helping verbs, they do not have any meaning. They just help
main verbs to express their (main verbs) perfect meaning according to tense.
To Be
Verbs: Am, is, are, was, and were
To
Have verbs: Have, Has and Had
Conditional
Verbs: Shall,
Should, Will, Would, May, might, Can, could, Ought to, Going to and Need
Before
Main Verbs as Auxiliary: Do, Did and Does
Main
Verbs: Those verbs
are called main verbs which have their (Verbs) own meaning. An English Sentence
must need a main verb. Sometime auxiliary verbs are used as main verbs.
Go,
Come, See, Want, Eat, Ride, take, Do, Write, Read,
Hear, Talk,
Drink, See, Sleep and Swim etc.
Examples and Uses of Verbs:
He goes to school. (M.V)
He can do the sum. (A.V)
They take some food. (M.V)
I am going to School every
day. (A.V)
You have won the prize. (M.V)
You have won the prize. (A.V)
She will dance today. (A.V)
She will dance today. (M.V)
When Auxiliary or Helping Verbs Used as Main: When it appears that there is no
verb excepting a helping verb in a sentence, then the helping verb is
considered as main verb.
“I am a student.” In this sentence am is only one verb.
After am there appears no other
verbs. We understand that am is
not helping any verb. So am is a main verb because we know a sentence
must have a main verb.
They
are player. I have a car. She is a good girl.
Note: After Modal Auxiliaries, verbs must be
in a Base form.
Base Form means a verb in present form and
also not used s, es, ed etc.
I can swim. She may go. It can be
done. They must have some money.
Be
is the base form of
am, is, are, was and were.
Have
is the base form of have, has, had.
