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helping verb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of helping verb1
First recorded in 1815–25
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Example Sentences
Do has been called a helping verb; but it needs little observation to discover that it is no more so than a hundred other words.
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The difference in time is expressed by a change in the infinitive instead of a change in the form of the helping verb.
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With may and might and can and could, present and past time are expressed by a change in the form of the helping verb.
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Often in using verb phrases, we use phrases in which the same helping verb occurs in both phrases.
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In interrogative sentences, the subject comes after the helping verb or after the interrogative used to introduce the sentence.
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