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