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Verbs, Main Verbs and Auxiliary Verbs: Core Meaning

Understand how main verbs carry a clause’s central action or state while auxiliary verbs help express tense, aspect, voice, modality, questions, negatives and emphasis.

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Verbs, Main Verbs and Auxiliary Verbs: Core Meaning

Understand how main verbs carry a clause’s central action or state while auxiliary verbs help express tense, aspect, voice, modality, questions, negatives and emphasis.

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