Examples of auxiliary words for each Number value :
For detailed definition of what a auxiliary means, check here .
The word types shown below are sorted by token frequency and further grouped by lemma.
| Lemma | Morphosyntactic Attributes | Number | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NA | Sing | |||
| be | be | - | Examples | |
| be | Past | were | was | Examples |
| be | 3;Pres | - | is | Examples |
| be | 3;Past | - | was | Examples |
| be | Pres | are | - | Examples |
| be | 1;Pres | - | am | Examples |
| be | 1;Past | - | was | Examples |
| have | Past | had | - | Examples |
| have | Pres | 'd | - | Examples |
| have | have | - | Examples | |
| have | 3;Pres | - | has | Examples |
| will | will | - | Examples | |
| do | Pres | do | - | Examples |
| do | 3;Pres | - | does | Examples |
| do | Past | did | - | Examples |
| do | do | - | Examples | |
| can | can | - | Examples | |
| would | would | - | Examples | |
| could | could | - | Examples | |
| should | should | - | Examples | |
| may | may | - | Examples | |
| might | might | - | Examples | |
| must | must | - | Examples | |
| get | Past | got | - | Examples |
| get | getting | - | Examples | |
| get | 3;Pres | - | gets | Examples |
| get | Pres | get | - | Examples |
| shall | shall | - | Examples | |
| ought | ought | - | Examples | |