Difference between an auxillary verb and state of being verb?

Answer 1

Auxiliary verbs 'help' main verbs to make a verb phrase.

For example: are going, or can help.

Many auxiliary verbs can also be main verbs eg have

They have a new car. (main verb) I have seen his new car. (auxiliary verb).

The auxiliary verb is the first verb of the verb phrase. eg have seen, has been, is watching

Answer 2

'want' would be a main verb as it is virtually impossible for an auxiliary to stand alone. Auxiliaries must always occur with a main verb, but main verbs can stand alone.

In English, there are both modal and tensed auxiliaries which are listed here for you.

Tensed:

has/had, is/was, are/were, does/did

Modal:

can/could, may/might, will/would, shall/should, must, ought

Take for example the sentence

i.e: I want the hamburger.

By substituting with other main verbs,

i.e: I love/ate the hamburger.

would be appropriate. If 'want' is an auxiliary verb, then it is supposed to occur with a main verb, which would be ungrammatical as seen below:

i.e:* I want decided to work here.

in comparison to

i.e: I have decided to work here.

where 'have' is an auxiliary.

Only tensed auxiliaries have the dual relationship of being either a main verb or an auxiliary as seen below:

i.e: It is very peaceful here.

where the above 'is' is a main verb and

i.e: The police is investigating the crime scene.

where 'is' is an auxiliary being accompanied by the main verb 'investigating'.

Answer 3

Let's see the following sentences.

She has been crying for a hours.

I will be having dinner at that time.

They might approve this effort.

In all these sentence action verb has been used with other words to make it meaninigfull sentence.these helping words are known as Auxiliary verbs...e.g has been,will be,might. Auxiliary verb help the main (action) verb and tell the time (present past future).

Following are the main commonly used auxiliary verbs:

shall, should. have , be, may, might, do, will, would , can, could, etc.

If two or more words are joined togather into a single verb phrase that function as the full verb of the predicate, the first part of the phrase is auxiliary, and the second part is the lexical verb.

Let's analyze the above sentnce:

She has been crying for a hours.

has been (auxiliary )

crying (lexical)

Answer 4

When a verb is used as a "state of being verb" (often called a "copula" by linguists), it serves the purpose of linking the subject of the sentence to an adjective which describes the subject. Example:

I am fat.

You look tall.

He seems funny.

An auxiliary verb is used to indicate the tense or somehow modify another verb.

I am eating. (present participle)

He was speaking. (past participle)

There are other auxiliaries such as:

I can ride a bicycle.

I should take a nap.

Notice that, in the English language, the verb "to be" is often used in either situation which can potentially be a source of ambiguity. Consider the statement:

"My hands were frozen."

If I were using the copula form of "to be", it would imply that "My hands were in a state of being extremely cold"

If I intended the form of "to be" to be used as an auxiliary form, it would indicate the passive voice form of "to freeze" implying that "My hands had been fine until some came along and did something to freeze them." It is coincidence that, in English, the two happen to form the same sentence.

Often, one can tell the difference based on the context it is used. However, it would important to know this context if you were translating this sentence to another language. Many languages do not use the same copulas to also form auxiliary verbs the way the English languages does.

Answer 5

An adverb describes a verb, adjective, or other adjective; e.g. I am very happy (very describing happy) or He ran quickly (quickly describing ran). An auxiliary verb (or helping verb) is a verb, just not the main one; e.g. He had run (had is a verb, but he didn't "have", he ran) or She is going (she isn't "being" (in the sense of it being the verb), she is going).

Answer 6

The primary auxiliary verbs are to be and to have.

Answer 7

They have nothing in common: one is a verb, the other -an adverb.

Answer 8

difference between primary auxiliary verbs and modal verbs