Auxiliary and Lexical Verbs

Name 7 forms of Be.

Is, Am, Are, Were, Being, Been, Was,

Name the three 3rd person present tenses of Be.

Is, Are, Am

In Present Tense Third Person (Present Simple), what are the three different endings we add to verbs?

-S, -ES, and -IES

'Was' in these sentences are lexical or verbal? 1. He was being good 2. He was working. 3. He was beaten. 4. He was happy.

1. Auxiliary 2. Auxiliary 3. Auxiliary 4. Lexical (Being, Working, and Beaten are all verb forms. Happy is an adjective. He was happy explains a state and not an action.)

'Have' in these sentences are lexical or verbal? 1. I have had some issues. 2. I have watched that movie. 3. I have twelve aunts.

1. Auxiliary 2. Auxiliary 3. Lexical

Auxiliary verbs help the speaker indicate _____/______/______ they see the ______event.

How/ When/ "in which way" , lexical

How would you change Speak, Cry, and Fix to be in Present Tense Third Person?

Add S to Speak (Speaks) Add IES to Cry (Cries) Add ES to Fix (Fixes)

If the word "those" has a noun after it, it is classified as a/an ______.

Adjective

In the Sentence "These Jeans are too tight", the word 'these' is an adjective or pronoun?

Adjective. (The thing is named, it is Jeans. The term 'these' does not stand in for a noun, the noun is there, Jeans.)

In the sentence "She is running at the moment", the verb 'is' performs the role of helping the main verb 'run' to make the present progressive tense and has no independent meaning of its own. The verb 'is' is what kind of verb?

Auxiliary

What type of verb acts to support or help lexical Verbs?

Auxiliary verbs fulfill the purpose of acting as a help or support to lexical verbs. For example, in the following sentence "He's watching TV at the moment", the verb 'is' (contracted with he to make he's) performs the role of helping the main verb 'watch' to make the present progressive tense and has no independent meaning of its own.

Name the past participle of Be.

Been

Name the gerund or present participle of Be.

Being

Demonstrative pronouns are also known as "_____ _______". They "_______ towards ______ without having the ______ after them."

Demonstrative pronouns are also known as "Noun Markers." They "point towards" nouns without having the noun after them.

Name all the forms of do.

Do, did, done, doing, does

Auxiliary verbs carry only _____ meaning.

Grammatical

______ verbs typically express action, state, or other predicate meaning.

Lexical

_______ verbs contain some sort of meaning and can stand alone.

Lexical ( In the sentence I hate grandma dogs, the verb hate is lexical: it has meaning and does not need another verb to help it in any way.)

What kind of verb expresses necessity, obligation, or possibility?

Modal Auxiliary Verb

Can, could, may, might, must, ought, should, will, and would function only as....

Modal Auxiliary Verbs

In "It was handed to me as I was leaving", the word 'handed' is what verb tense?

Past participle

About, Like, and Except are _________.

Prepositions

Of, Throughout, and Along are ________.

Prepositions

On, Beneath, Over, Beside, & During are examples of what?

Prepositions

If no noun comes after them, These, Those, Them, and This are ____.

Pronouns

______ are used alone and _______ have nouns following them.

Pronouns, Adjectives

The subject is what (or whom) the sentence is about. The predicate tells something about the________.

Subject

There are only how many participles? What are they?

There are only two participles, past and present. ( Giggled, Giggling) (Sung, Singing)

In "She lives not far from here.", 'lives' is what verb tense?

Third person present simple

Name 4 demonstrative pronouns.

This, That, These, Those

Name the two past tenses of Be.

Was, Were

Often, Finally, and Quite are _____.

adverbs

In the sentence "They didn't get there on time" the verb do (in its past form did) has the function of a/an _____ ____ to help create the negative form.

auxiliary verb

What 3 auxiliary verbs can function as lexical verbs?

be, do, have. Ex: I have brothers. She was there. I do my stretches. ('Be' has different present and past forms: am, are, is, was and were.

In the sentence "I did my work-out last night" the verb 'do' (in its past form did) functions as a/an ________ that carries meaning.

lexical verb

A Modal Auxiliary Verb expresses ____, ____, or ______.

necessity, obligation, or possibility

A ________ links nouns, pronouns and phrases to other words in a sentence.

preposition