{"id":71702,"date":"2019-08-21T07:53:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T07:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=71702"},"modified":"2019-08-21T07:53:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T07:53:02","slug":"auxiliary-verbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/auxiliary-verbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Auxiliary Verbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A verb like<strong> be, have and do<\/strong> which is used with another verb to make tenses, passive forms, questions and negatives.<\/p>\n<p>English auxiliaries are divided into two types: the primary auxiliaries <strong>be, have and do<\/strong>, and the modal auxiliaries <strong>can, could, will, would, shall, should, may, might, must and ought (to). Need and dare<\/strong> are semi auxiliaries. They behave sometimes like modals but at other times like ordinary verbs.<\/p>\n<h3>Primary auxiliaries<\/h3>\n<p>Be (is, am, are, was and were) is added to other verbs to make progressive and passive forms.<br \/>\nI am writing.<br \/>\nIs it raining?<br \/>\nAre you coming with us?<br \/>\nShe was punished for lying.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do<\/strong> is used to make questions, negatives and emphatic forms of non-auxiliary verbs.<\/p>\n<p>Do you smoke?<br \/>\nIt doesn\u2019t matter.<br \/>\nDo come in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have<\/strong> is used to make perfect tenses.<\/p>\n<p>I have written a novel.<br \/>\nHe has agreed to come.<br \/>\nWhat have you done?<\/p>\n<p>Modal auxiliaries are used with other verbs to add various meanings, mostly to do with degrees of certainty or obligation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A verb like be, have and do which is used with another verb to make tenses, passive forms, questions and negatives. English auxiliaries are divided into two types: the primary auxiliaries be, have and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[778,166,779,780],"class_list":["post-71702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-auxiliaries","tag-modal-auxiliary-verbs","tag-modals","tag-primary-auxiliary-verbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71703,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71702\/revisions\/71703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}