LIN232H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Categories Of New Testament Manuscripts, Preterite, Uses Of English Verb Forms
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Main verbs vs. auxiliary verb uses of be, have, do. English has at least two verbs have. Part of progressive sentence, part of passive, or copular be. Provides meaning accomplish/perform or to support tense. English has at least two verbs do. Main verbs cannot undergo subject-auxiliary inversion, but only auxiliaries (english). Only auxiliary verbs and modals can appear before the word not. Marked by be and past participle inflection eaten Modals > perfect auxiliary > progressive auxiliary > passive auxiliary > verb. All the auxiliaries are in head complementary position to the vp that selects it. Auxiliaries take inflectional suffixes: e. g. , tense morphology (-ed), agreement morphology (-s), suffixes to turn them into participles and gerunds (-en and -ing) Auxiliaries follow modals, infinitive marker to, other auxiliaries (to some edtent) Modals (e. g. , can, should) do not take verbal inflectional endings, do not follow not, other modals or auxiliaries, or the infinitive marker to
