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  2. English modal auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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    The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to express modality, properties such as possibility and obligation. [a] They can most easily be distinguished from other verbs by their defectiveness (they do not have participles or plain forms [b]) and by their lack of the ending ‑(e)s for the third-person singular.

  3. List of English auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of English auxiliary verbs, i.e. helping verbs, which include Modal verbs and Semi-modal verbs. See also auxiliary verbs , light verbs , and catenative verbs . Primary Auxiliary Verbs

  4. English auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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    English auxiliary verbs are a small set of English verbs, which include the English modal auxiliary verbs and a few others. [1]: 19 [2]: 11–12 Although the auxiliary verbs of English are widely believed to lack inherent semantic meaning and instead to modify the meaning of the verbs they accompany, they are nowadays classed by linguists as auxiliary on the basis not of semantic but of ...

  5. English irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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    The verb wit is the only non-modal verb that is also a preterite-present verb and it does not take -s in the third person. It also has a vowel shift in the present tense as in "I wot". For shortened forms of certain verbs and of their negations (' s, ' re, won't, etc.), see English auxiliaries and contractions.

  6. Auxiliary verb - Wikipedia

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    An auxiliary verb (abbreviated aux) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect, modality, voice, emphasis, etc. Auxiliary verbs usually accompany an infinitive verb or a participle, which respectively provide the main semantic content of the clause. [1]

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    President-elect Trump said Democrats made a “BIG mistake” getting involved with former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney. “The Democrats made a BIG ...

  8. Envoy Hochstein says US working with Lebanon and Israel to ...

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    BEIRUT (Reuters) -U.S. special envoy Amos Hochstein said on Monday in Beirut that the United States was working on a formula to end the conflict between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah ...

  9. The US has executed 23 men this year. A look at the state of ...

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    Four days later on Sept. 24, two men were executed within an hour of each other: Marcellus Williams was executed in Missouri at 6:10 p.m. CT even though the prosecutors in the case and the victim ...