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Auxiliary verbs, definition and examples,


Auxiliary verb, The Supporting Actor in sentence structure.

What is an auxiliary verb?


Auxiliory verbs the unrecognized heroes of  the Grammar world.They Assist the main verb of a sentence, providing essential context variation. Without auxiliary verbs our sentence Would be meaningless from forming questions to Expressing tense, auxiliary verbs play important role in shaping the meaning and structure of language. 


Let's highlight these supporting actors and Explore Their importance in Sentence structure.



What is the definition of an auxiliary verb?


Auxiliary verbs is also known as helping verbs,
Mainly is used with subject to define whether it is singular or plural moreover auxiliary verbs show occurance of action with different time zones.

Auxiliary verb list
Let's find out what are the auxiliary verbs and  aware yourselves about these tauxiliary verbs that help you in sentence making.

  1. Do
  2. Does
  3. Did
  4. Is
  5. Am
  6. Are
  7. Was
  8. Were 
  9. Has
  10. Have
  11. Had
  12. Will
  13. Shall
  14. Can
  15. May
  16. Should
  17. Must
  18. Would
  19. Used to
  20. Ought to
  21. Could 
  22. Might


Here auxiliary verbs characterize themselves with three different time zones,

1. Present auxiliary verbs,
  • Do
  • Does
  • Is
  • Am
  • Are
  • Has
  • Have 

2. Past auxiliary verbs,

  • Did 
  • Was
  • Were 
  • Had

3. Future auxiliary verbs,
  • Will
  • Shall

Ex: She is playing guitar.
Ex: They are trying to convince him.
Ex: I am going to Delhi.

These examples are showing the occurance of action in present and also show subject is either singular or plural.

Ex: She had lodged a complaint against him.
Ex: They were playing Cricket.
Ex: I was watching movie.
These examples are showing the occurance of action in past.

Ex; He will inform you soon.
Ex: I shall sing a song for you.
Ex: She will aware the exact process of submitting form.
These examples are the occurance of action in future.



What are modal auxiliary verbs?


Modal auxiliary are used to specify such as possibility, strong possibility, remote possibility, request, permission, ability, and social obligation.

Modal auxiliary verbs are,

  • Can (ability, request, permission)
  • Could ( past ability, request)
  • May (strong possibility, request and permission)
  • Might (remote possibility)
  • Should ( advice, social obligation, theoreticalpossibility)
  • Must ( compulsion, obligation)
  • Would (past form of will, polite request)
  • Ought to ( advice, national obligation )
  • Used to ( past habitual action no existence in present)
Let's understand them through examples,

Ex; She may sing a song  to impress him.

Ex: We should respect elderly citizens.

Ex: you must answer atleast ten questions out of twenty.

Ex; it might rain today.

Ex: Rohan was the only candidate who visited us yesterday, it might be left the main gate open.

Ex; He used to speak two languages when he was a child.

Ex: I am unable to pick your phone, could you drop me a message?

Ex; I would like to introduce my friend.



What is difference between Auxiliary verb and modal auxiliary verb?

Both work auxiliary verbs but they are differ from their functions, auxiliary verb work according to the subject of the sentence,if the subject is singular then auxiliary verb is singular but if the subject is plural then the auxiliary verb is plural,

But modal auxiliary verbs are used with all subjects according to the their own characteristics.

I hope this article enhance your learning if you  have any doubt feel free to contact us, 

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  1. Anita mishraJuly 25, 2025 at 12:40 PM

    This Article is easy to understand, thank you for wonderful article

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