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2. English auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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   The first English grammar, Bref Grammar for English by William Bullokar, published in 1586, does not use the term "auxiliary" but says: All other verbs are called verbs-neuters-un-perfect because they require the infinitive mood of another verb to express their signification of meaning perfectly: and be these, may, can, might or mought, could, would, should, must, ought, and sometimes, will ...

3. Auxiliary verb - Wikipedia

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   Auxiliary verb. 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]

4. Past tense - Wikipedia

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   The past tense is a grammatical tense whose function is to place an action or situation in the past. Examples of verbs in the past tense include the English verbs sang, went and washed. Most languages have a past tense, with some having several types in order to indicate how far back the action took place. Some languages have a compound past ...

5. Words and Rules - Wikipedia

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   Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language is a 1999 popular linguistics book by Steven Pinker about regular and irregular verbs. "Words and rules" is a theory that has been predominantly developed by Pinker. It has been popularly contextualized within the so-called " Past-Tense Debate," which was sparked by Rumelhart and McClelland's 1986 ...

6. List of English irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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   Now regularized in past tense and sometimes in past participle. must – (no other forms) Defective; originally a preterite. See English modal verbs: need (needs/need) – needed – needed: Weak, regular except in the use of need in place of needs in some contexts, by analogy with can, must, etc. [3] See English modal verbs: ought – (no ...

7. English irregular verbs - Wikipedia

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   In some verbs, the past tense, past participle, or both are identical in form to the basic (infinitive) form of the verb. This is the case with certain strong verbs, where historical sound changes have led to a leveling of the vowel modifications: for example, let has both past tense and past participle identical to the infinitive, while come ...