Examples of auxiliary words for each Tense 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 | Tense | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NA | Past | Pres | |||
| be | be | were | are | Examples | |
| be | 3;Sing | - | was | is | Examples |
| be | 1;Sing | - | was | am | Examples |
| be | Sing | - | was | - | Examples |
| have | have | had | 'd | Examples | |
| have | 3;Sing | - | - | has | Examples |
| will | will | - | - | Examples | |
| do | do | did | do | Examples | |
| do | 3;Sing | - | - | does | Examples |
| can | can | - | - | Examples | |
| would | would | - | - | Examples | |
| could | could | - | - | Examples | |
| should | should | - | - | Examples | |
| may | may | - | - | Examples | |
| might | might | - | - | Examples | |
| must | must | - | - | Examples | |
| get | getting | got | get | Examples | |
| get | 3;Sing | - | - | gets | Examples |
| shall | shall | - | - | Examples | |
| ought | ought | - | - | Examples | |