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Lesson 15 : Auxiliary Verbs and

Modal Verbs

Auxiliary Verbs help form tenses, negatives, interrogatives, question
tags, passive, etc.
Examples: The little girl is writing poetry. (present continuous)
Manish doesn’t sing songs. (negative)

Are friends working together? (interrogative)
People are singing, aren’t they?(question tag)
Trees are being destroyed. (passive)

Auxiliary Verbs are as follows:
Be Verbs: is, am, are, was and were.
Do Verb: do, does and did.
Have Verb: has, have and had.

A. Underline auxiliary verbs in the sentences below and write their
types on the space below.

1. Do you want to travel abroad? __________________

2. How many children are smart in your class? __________________

3. Two boys with me were going on an excursion. __________________

4. I am to leave on Monday. __________________

5. As he was not there, I spoke to his brother. __________________

6. He is richer than I am. __________________

7. Do not go before I permit. __________________

8. Who didn’t attend the meeting? __________________

9. It has been raining for two hours. __________________

10. I had had my dinner before he come to my home. __________________

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