2. Modal Verbs and Auxiliary Verbs. English Grammar Lesson

Yossarian the Grammarian provides a quick review of modals and auxiliaries, and shows you how many words long a verb can be. English grammar and English language.

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[ddsharper]

The child is upstairs. Regarding this sentence, one source calls "upstairs" and adjective, another calls it an adjective. Please tell. What say you? Thanks.

[mrthoth]

@ddsharper In "The child is upstairs", "upstairs" is an adverb. It answers the question, "Where"? Where is the child? Upstairs, that's where. In "The house has two upstairs bedrooms," "upstairs" is an adjective. It answers the question "What kind of?" What kind of bedrooms does the house have two of? Upstairs bedrooms, that's what kind.

[MrDevin666]

Aren't modal and auxiliary verbs an integration of a helping verb, because I read that they're a division of the helping verb with only different meanings but both still considered a helping verb?

[mrthoth]

@MrDevin666 "Auxiliary verb" means the same thing as "helping verb"; they are two terms for the same thing. It is true that modals can be considered a subset of the auxiliary verbs.

[nyteskyy]

I am a bit lost on the modal verbs. You stated they cannot be verbs themselves. My question is an example sentences.

1.) I can.

2). I might.

3.) I will!

There are more examples, but my question is, are my above examples not complete sentences?

[mrthoth]

@nyteskyy By the way, we speak in sentence fragments all the time, and properly so. (If we always spoke in complete sentences, we'd bore each other to death.) So when someone asks you, "What did you have for lunch?", often you will quite correctly respond with the sentence fragment, like "A sandwich and a Coke," rather than with the grammatically complete "For lunch I had a sandwich and a Coke."

[sdhch477]

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[fouadi1984]

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[ddsharper]

@mrthoth Thank you mrhtoth.

[Kounelli33]

'A goiter!'.... how bizarre....

[saschabudko]

"Will have been being"

nice :)

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Just kidding))) -- Thanks a lot for the lesson.

[DeMarkieSade]

"I would walk ten-miles through the desert heat to kiss that girl."<---Because i am that smitten with her.

"I would like to talk to all of you today about STD's."<----- because they are a very dangerous detriment to people of your age especially.

In these sentences many would probably say, "where is the conditional," because they wouldn't see it? The reason is that the rest of the conditional, the adverbial clause, is not stated but only Implied, or taken for granted.

[DeMarkieSade]

They do, contrary to what many believe, however, have a present and past tense. may-might, shall-should- will-would, can- could etc. Their third popular use is in conditional sentences that involve either a stated or implied adverbial clause.

You should go watch that movie, man. or you must go watch that movie. or an auxillary "You have to go see that movie, man.

These would be conditionals with the none stated, but only implied adverbial clause.

You should go see that movie man, because etc...

[DeMarkieSade]

They do not have a singular and plural form like other verbs have either. "They 'walk' slowly to the store." "He 'walks' slowly to the store." etc.

They do not take the 'S' ending like most regular verbs, nor do they take the "ED" ending for past tenses, both simple and perfect, like most regular verbs, nor do they have an inner vowel shift like many irregular verbs for different tenses either, ie. "run ran, see saw, get got, took take, etc.