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| Auxiliaries (Helping Verbs) |
Make more Meaningful sentences simply by adding Modal Auxiliaries
Auxiliaries or Helping verbs help to make sentences meaningful. It gives sense to the sentences. Auxiliaries also show an appropriate tense.
While conversation we use various types of sentences with a wide range of meanings. Sometimes we give advice, polite requests, capability, ability, compulsion, possibility, etc. In these senses, we can't use any such type of words, instead, we always use Auxiliaries. It gives us meaningful senses.
Auxiliaries are classified as:
Why does it call primary Auxiliaries?
Because it has a common meaning. It has no own meaning and sometimes it is used as the main verb.
e.i. I have a pen.
Primary Auxiliaries have three forms:
- To-Be form : am / is / are / was / were /
- To-Do form : do / does / did
- To-Have form : have / has / had
Shall, should, will, would, can, could, may, might, must, need to, have to, ought to, dare to, used to.
- Why does it call Modal Auxiliaries?
Because it has more than one sense and is used as the main verb.
e. i. I need money.
Then the question arises in our mind that how to use it.
The answer is that we must use the following sensors:
- 'Obligation / compulsion / duty' is denoted by 'must'.
This means those compulsory things that we can not avoid and it is very very necessary to do, at that time we use "must".
e.i. You must obey your teacher.
It must solve the whole paper.
- 'Ability/capability and 'request' are indicated by 'can'.
e.i. I can speak English.
Can I help you?
- 'Past action and polite request' is denoted by 'could'.
Past actions that we want to share with others. You express using could as :
e.i. I could fight with them yesterday, but I love those people.
If you want to explore your ideas politely with others, then we use could as :
e. i. Could you give me a chance?
- 'Past habitual actions' is expressed by 'used to'.
We have so many bad habits while passing time we leave those bad habits and tell about them while giving advice to people. In such a condition, we use 'used to'.
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