Basic English Grammar: What is an auxiliary verb?

Jade,
thank you for your help…

Manolo.Martinez

got 10 XD !!!

moldret

It was a good review of English tenses and auxiliary verbs Jade.

For me the most valuable tip for this lesson was not to translate helper verbs into your first language.

So,to avoid confusion, please don’t do so.

Many thanks for this video-lesson Jade.

Regards.

Regino

Thank you, Sensei, for your advice.
BTW, what is your “first” language?
Your flag is Mexican, don’t you?
Your style is…What is your style ?

aroibas

useful lesson, Ive never been the first to leave a comment, thanks

willito

Thank you Jade.

pavanut2

My score was perfect! Thank you for your lesson, Jade :)

Happy04

Thax Jade. I like your lesson.

krunu

hahaha.. nice try! 7 out of ten, not bad:)

cherry mae villarin

I got 8 of 9 many thanks you for your lesson

Sith

Helpful lesson, thanks a lot.

tc7787

Thank you Jade It’s very useful lesson.

Ukrit

Thank you, i got 9 out of 9.

AonDent

Ok, I got 7 still not bad
Thanks

Michael Caganek 272

You are very good teacher.
Thank you so much.

Abdulrahman55

Thank you very much.

murat1965

Mr. Murat Hi,

I want to watch and study step by step Lessons. How can I do it?

serhatguden

I got 9/9. thanks for the lesson

HurricaneAngel

very good mr gade

ADAMELMASRY

the quiz is fun to do

siddhida

I gain more confidence each time I do the quizzes

siddhida

This is good bit we need more exercise please thanks

alaamoi

very good lesson, thanks a lot.

englishform

Thanks Jade. :)

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Dzhemil

obedysaias it’s gonna be a pleassure to put in practice all that i’ve been learning lately.

obedysaias

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obedysaias

THX a lot because of the useful notes

Mina bagheri

Hmm… interesting. Got 9/9, although didn’t really understand. It’s more like: this feels right and that feels wrong. It’s difficult to grasp… will have to hold on to this lesson much, much longer i guess.
Anyways.
Thank you. :]

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Heloiso

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So we can learn english and get helping for each other :)

bohama

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Feel free to contact me in any time.
See you, Marcellee

Edinho

It would be*

Edinho

nice to help each other :)

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vikas bansal

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Mannoshe

Here I am. I interested to learned more English Lesson. this is my skype: mundas26
thank you….

mundas26

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dfantauzzi769

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khaledomar

I got 10%

lachgar

I got 100%

lachgar

I got 100%

lachgar

Thanks

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thanks at all

obedysaias

Great!!

wesleymcj

8/9 ;) I would like to ask, if is possible a lesson about contractions, between subject and the verb for example – We have – We’ve.

Jorge Pedroso

not bad for me … thank you Jade

samgh7

Hi Jade
sorry but I don’t concord with you that: “I have got a card” is present perfect form of get.
thank you.

Frank

Its full on :)

Laxmi kandel

Hi, I would like to know the grammer classes from the chapter-1.so, where can i find ??

shrikanth

excellent test. Please keep it up.
Is any one interesting in chatting?

hame911

Nice lesson, thank you.

Rogger1999

Interessent ,Thank you very much

Mouhcine1

Thank you very much Jade.

slawek4

Yeah! I got 9 out of 9. I love the way of your teaching very much! :D

Son Gohan

Good lesson, Jade. Thank you !

oscargutierrez502

Thank Jade!

edsonleite

Good lesson, teacher Thank you very much.

jackyg2jpd93

Hello Jade, is it possible to have lessons with you via skype? If yes, please, write me your email and I will write more. Thanks. Adriana

adrianabenz

Thank you , Jade!! :)

ivettita28

Thank you jade. Could you make a lesson about Reading tips?,

lochana

Good video.

yukardo

thanks for help :)

cpatricia

Really nice, Thank a lot….

thiago1983

This is a very useful lesson… I’ve been looking for that kind of a lesson….

Achalaisi1991

Thank you Jade, it is very important to remenber some importants things in grammar!

Carlosjsobrinho

Oh Yeah!! I’m GOOD 100% … Got them all correct

Thanks for the lesson Jade !!!!!!! :D

DaZun

Thank you so much Jade! your video was very useful to me!

Ivan Obregon

Thanks

anoguera

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fyber73

many thanks

MinhPhuong

Thank you for your help

selimkasap

IIt’s so hard for me to understand your accent, Jade. I’m not saying that you’re a bad teacher, or that the lesson was bad, but your accent is too different of the other teachers, I’m having some trouble to understand you, yet. But, thanks for this lesson, I’ll try harder to improve my english.

Taylor Mcknight

thx mss

mohamed costa

Thanks a lot!

papyan

I like your British accent !

papyan

I got 10 :)

tota chan

I got 100!!!!I’m very happy. Thank you for your help.

@yp94011717

i got a bad score,so sad

barbarbar

Thanks Jade. Got 9 out of 9. :D

CedomirP

9 out of 9. Really thanks Jade !

Ngoc Linh Dang

the very difficult quiz

Anuar is from Kazakhstan

it’s very helpful.thanks Jade.

sara2020

Thanks a lot, Jade. I got 9 after watching your lesson. Congratulation for high quality of your lessons. Jonas from Brazil

Sanoj

Thank you.

Iamhere.

Could you help me to state the difference between the modal verbs MUST and SHOULD, and come up with a single context to explain both of them to lower intermediate students?

paujorgel

All modal verbs have more than one meaning – ‘can’ means ability – ‘I can swim’ but also asking for something ‘Can I borrow your pen?’. ‘Should’ is mostly used for advice ‘you should take an aspirin’ ‘You should work harder’ but can also mean something is almost certain to happen/not happen ‘the rain should stop soon’, ‘he should be here by now’ . Must is used for strong necessity – I must work harder, You must stop smoking BUT in many cases ‘Have to’ is a safer option. When you get to a higher level you will see what I mean. Must +be means strong possibility/deduction now – ‘Ah! That must be Juan, he said he would ring about now’. Must + present perfect means deduction in the past ‘see that – he must have killed himself’ ‘We must have taken a wrong path as we are lost!’. Modals are extremely powerful ways of modifying a verb so take your time with them. Good luck

emgee

thank you for the test , is very interesting

dauris809

Thanks, for useful lessens and good teaching.

Jawadehrar

woohoooo I have got 6 out of 9 thanks for the lesson

sediqullah886

Hehe i got 9/9

roy123

Thanks ….I got 100%

ahlam1987

i got seven huhuh

kathrina

thanks for helpful lesson

lykungmeng

thanks jade

mohamed handasa

Here i got 6/9

seetharam

I got 100 before watch the vid

Not Yet

I´ve had a lot of mystakes there. I´ll have to trying.

Pavluz

Thanks a lot!
:)

ismail1991@

That was a dificult lesso, but you did a great teaching work

earaiza@mtz

Oh my God, if placed correctly translated the lessons will be the best site in the world

taha1612

its good, quiz helped me to know my level

shankpaul

I don’t believe,10/10 thanks Jane

jgomez

thanks a lot jade, you’ve helped me to understand well about the grammar and i got 9 correct

iham

Thank you Jade.You are wonderfull teacher.

gokhanstrong

I have 9 correct your quiz. 9/9

gokhanstrong

Thank you teacher i got 6 auxiliary verbs. others auxiliary verbs i didn’t understand because of Internet Problem.

Achakzai

i have got full marks in the quiz… thanks allot .

abu3lli

Thank you Jade.

said ahmed

I’ve understood excellently and, the teacher’s accent is spectacular something I’ve been needing to improve my listening skill It still being hard to understanda native speaker.
thank’s a lot I’m happy to find this page.

EDwin7

Thanks to YouTube that I found the best Teachers… especially engvid.com

Sheikh Yaseen

Jade,
thank you for your help…

mido1985

Jade, thank you for your class.

ChefLuke

i like your lessons

akoga

I got 9 of 9 many
thanks you for your lesson
I have benefited greatly

ar2014

Thank you Jade. You helped me to understand this topic. 9 of 9.

Natasha-bo-bo-bo

Thank you Jade.

adil.azizoglu

Thanks for you help, you always show me how be to make things better!

jvcfrank16

Thanks teacher, all was clear as a glass

Esau

thanks a lot

karimanice

Thnx very much :)

Maryoooma

Thank you very much engvid to give us this website

tomsah

very nice
jade

cherasse

so good

Linh Hoang Kim

Jade, thank you for helping us. ;)

Du Oliveira

Many thanks Jade

bedaia

this is hard for me ;( im confused about past countinous .

leosuque0804

The past continuous has very distinctive uses. 1) We use it to describe a long past activity with another action – the past simple- interrupting it “We were having lunch when we heard the news” “I was working in a bar when I met my future wife”. Not important but a good rule to follow – use ‘when’ with the past simple clause and ‘while’ with the past continuous: We heard the news while we were having lunch” While I was working in a bar I met my wife” . Be careful not to use it without the when – “Last Saturday I was shopping” – to the English this sounds like a start of a story and they will wait for the ‘when…’! Better to say ‘Last Saturday I went shopping” 2) to ask what a person was doing at a specific time in the past “Where were you last night at 8.00?” The past simple ‘What did you do at 8,00 last night” is IMPOSSIBLE to use here! 3) We use it for background information in a story – “it was raining”.

emgee

it was very useful for me. thanks…

recepdemirtas1967

I got 7/9. I confuse tense :'( :'( :'(

Sweety-Girl

PLEASE remove this lesson as it is almost 100% totally wrong! 1) “I have got..” is NOT present perfect, it is present simple and the ‘got’ is not even a verb in this case! 2) ‘…have been talking ‘pres perfect cont the ‘been’ is not an auxiliary, it is the past participle of ‘be’ . As far as I know you NEVER have two auxiliaries together. 3) The word following a modal is always the important verb? Dangerous rule! see: ‘I could never understand’ – never is not a verb! 4) when translating the main verb is more important than the auxiliary – erm- then ‘ can swim, can’t swim, should swim, have to swim, maybe swimming, might be swimming’ etc all translate the same? NO WAY! The modal has totally modified the verbs meaning! This lesson is total rubbish and very confusing and should have been checked before going online – remove, please!!!!

emgee

More on why there are NOT two auxiliaries for one verb. To make an object question we use a question word, auxiliary, subject, verb phrase e.g.: Where do you live? When did you see Peter? What are you doing? To follow Jade’s confusing calling ‘have been’ as two auxiliaries we would have to say ‘What have been you doing?’ So to make the present continuous we use the verb to be as the auxiliary plus the present participle ‘I am doing’ to make the present perfect continuous we use Have as the auxiliary plus past participle of be (been)plus present particle. also what about frequency and other adverbs? these go before the main verb/verb phrase ‘I always eat’ I am always eating…’ I have always eaten’ ‘I have never been to..’ this would not be the case if we follow the rules presented here. ‘I have often been out walking and seen.. would be ‘I have been out often walking and seen…’ Please do not confuse learners! At the end of the video it was stated the main verb follows the modal and the example, was I think, ‘should have given’ yet Jade had just spent 10 minutes explaining ‘have’ was an auxiliary. Very confusing for all – including herself as she looked baffled and quickly moved on. Please remove for all concerned!

emgee

nice

nicebaby2005

Tnx… Very nice class.

yugelive

Great……..Great…….thx

rafi ghan

I see nobody takes any notice that THIS LESSON IS VERY BAD and should NOT be online. Another error: Jade says that ‘Be’ is a linking verb and not very important and not worth translating — maybe in some languages but there are many more where it translates perfectly, oh, and Jade, we use it for state and location. Then later this ‘not important’ verb is now, with Will, the important verb. Huh?? Confused??? Oh and I think it is wrong to call ‘Will’ the future tense – English doesn’t really have such an animal and uses just about everything! Will can also be used as a present tense habit ‘Every evening I’ll feed the cat before myself’.

I am using this video to teach teachers how not to teach and as such it gives ENGVID a bad name. Can’t trust my students to go to the site when you have total rubbish like this on it. AVOID!!!

emgee

I agree with you

AbeerN

Do you give a lessons English ? Please inform me .

AbeerN

Thankyou for ur helpful lesson. Btw I found in my english book this statement. ” She has been married for twenty years”. Why it used “has been” for present perfect? You told in video if “has been/have been uses for present perfect continous. So it makes me confuse. I really appreciate if you reply my comment. Thx before:)

Nesfidaely

It’s the passive voice. She has been married and she is still married now.

nextstep.n

very good

sumudu

Very useful for me, thank ya.

zeleon

Sorry, does any one got the meaning of” i got 9 out of 9?”

zeleon

Thank u Jade i have got 9/9

Abderrahim09

Thanks jade it’s great.

Dr.solaiman

Thanks a lot of

Dr.solaiman

thank you krub

brezebub

Hello Jade , thanks for your help .

bahadori26

thanxx jade for helping me to learn

rajvilla4

Thanks to engvid for appointing two British teachers benjamin and jade…british accent is different when they sound from other teachers…finding a main verb is not an easy task..since I learnt these grammer rules earlier.i can able to identity the main verb…
The problem with students the perfect tense has past participle…as jade said had comes as past particle in main verb as well as aux verb before main verb …go went gone (past participle)..have had had(pastparticiple) students do mistake as hadden as past participle.come came come (past participle)..most of students confused with the verb which used in simple past and they are using past perfect…learning
Tense and past participle really helped me identifying main verb…

Deepak workaholic

i am new student in your marvellous website with kind and marvellous teachers.thanks for all .

lino3

I would be proud to say this course and quiz is easy for me, although I didn’t get 100.
:P

Dinaway

Thank you for these video Jade, they are very helpful but it’s very difficult to follow you because you speak very very fast !!!!
Many thanks.

epamynondas

thank you very much. you speak very fast and it is very useful for improving listening.

shahryar

Hello Jade
really i want thank you so much as your lessons helping me to improve my self day after day.
really thanks so much for your pure English

God Bless You

Andrew Ghaly

thank you.

plazztoo

Thank you

Viktor

Thank you Jade.
Perfect score.

Josmer

So, Jade, when BE has its full meaning, it’s not an auxiliary verb. “I am a doctor.”

When Be helps to make tense of verb like:
“Joe is working at the moment” then it becomes an auxiliary verb. Is this what you wanted to say?

Sonia1234

thank you so much.

mohamedsabryibrahim

jade thanks

dreamtravel

Thanks dear Jade your nice lesions are really useful I was really waiting for that explanation but one thing I would like to tell your British accent (dialects) was not that good not that clear for me

preemy

Thanks,Jade.

Kaho Kamimura

Thanks

Ark2015

this the quiz result I copy for jade:
100
You got 9 correct out of 9

chakim hamzah

I got 100! Thank you, Jade.

Sonia1234

Good lesson, as usual!
I have listened this webside for one month and I have found excellents lessons thant help me to review some rules grammar that I have forgotten.
Thank you teachers!
Regards

Beatrichee

6 out of 9 :( what a shame

armil

9/9 thank you very much.it’s a helpful lesson.

thiruselvi

(IMAGINE, I’M MAKING THE BRITISH ACCENT)
WHAT AN ACCENT YOU HAVE THERE. IT WAS A NICE LESSON YOU HAD THERE. I’VE LEARNED SO MUCH, THANKS FOR THE TIPS. HOW I WISH I WOULD BE A BETTER ENGLISH SPEAKER LIKE YOU ALL DO. SO, THATS WHY I NEED TO STUDY, AND WATCH MORE ALL OF YOUR VIDEOS HERE IN ENGVID. :) OH I GOT 8/9 I THOUGHT I PERFECTED IT. GUESS, I NEED TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT ALL OF THIS.

Blackrald

Score 56%, It’s really bad for me. :(, I will go to watch the video again, then I should be make the Quiz again.

Thank you.

chivialoco

No, yo creo que no.
1. 56% está por encima de la media.
2. I think that your problem is related to tenses+auxiliary.
In short:
1. You must watch the video again. ( Or: You should watch…)
2. Then you should learn all the present, past, perfect and continuous tenses.
3. You should make/do the Quiz again. ( Why ‘should be’).
Un saludo desde España. No me malinterpretes, sólo quiero ayudar con un consejo.

aroibas

Thanks dear Jade

Salad

Thanks got 89%.

Abdul Qayum

thanks dear jade

mahmoud hanafi

It is hard to me …I will try again

Marcelodins

Great lesson Gade,

Thanks a lot.

Ben1

Nice to meet you all

Stamp.msn

That was a good way to learning these helper verbs. Thank you Jade, I’m from Brasil

vandir

Thank you for your lesson and reassuring me of my comprehension of auxiliary verbs.

Jon Thomas

ok i got 5 out of 9 :(

tatadz

this is very difficult .:(

ahmed elkhayat

Teacher Jade I would like to thank you so much,Auxilary verb is very important for me. my Quiz result is 9/9 English is very important language to speak and write. so long.

Enkutatash

Thank you

Noraddeen

Thanks ^_^

munamhilal

9/9, Entrancing video.
Thank you

Sidhant

hi
thanks

logain

hi thank you teacher jade

ayoub abdennour

i got 9 out of 9

ali mehhdi

thanks!

shivam kumar

Thanks

Rhogie

I got 100
Thank you.

Jang Heung-jin

Thank you Jade.

Mounir Al-Otaibi

Thank you for your video. :)

supryront

Ma’am could you please tell me, which one is correct?
“Who did you meet?”
or
“Whom did you meet?”

Abb

Who did you meet
if you were to use Whom
it should have been
whom have you met

Kerbexz

Hello teacher
What is subjunctive?
give me a lesson on it, please

gag

I’m like too sorry but
Uh, how do I say it.
Kay! , don’t take it bad, but you sound like Harley Quinn from the Batman Series.
I’m so sorry couldn’t resist anymore ..
Are you adroit or something at speaking like that.? :D

Kerbexz

Thanks

marwan2015

I am perfect on this grammar.

Noney

Tank you.

Raul vale

I got 9 correct out of 9! Thanks a lot Jade!

Nzr1940

Hi Jade. Very interesting your lesson, but ” I´ve got a car”, isn´t Present Perfect, is Simple Present. Please correct your example.
Thanks.

dinocosta

Thanks

marwa mokhtar

Thx jade! i got 8 of 9

slow starter

9/9

ann ann

100/100 :grammar quiz,I’m so releaved

Mokhtaria Abid

Hi. simple but useful .Thanks.

Soei

I’ve got 9 correct out of 9!! *0*

Sozan Elsaid

thank you

Vivimi

Thank you Jade.

Marta Lopez

Thank you !!!

Franck88

Thanks a lot Jade.

Damascus2013

thanks alot, you look like Olivia Roxx on American Idol

Nguyen Van Hau

Hey Jade Thank You for a lession

Kirtisinh Jadeja

9 out of 9 Perfect One step closer

Divineb24

Thanks for the lesson mam, i got 4 correct out of 9, not bad for me :D

Uxman

Thanks a lot Jade. I like your lessons. I learned new things with you.

hmenn

Please my beautiful Thatcher teach me all tenses by send file to all tenses to my email 1yamn.bittar@gmail.com and last i have watched all videos on your chanel on youtube

1yamen

Thank you Jade ;)

kurtburak54

Thank you

Ahmed alloush

hi! I´ve been watching your videos and they´re very useful, they´re so easy to understand :D great work!

Paula S.

Thank you Ms Jade. I’m a little puzzled though. In the last sentence of the exercise which states “I have had enough chocolates. ” what will be our main and auxiliary verb?? Thanks anyway great lesson.

sonu

I have watched your video, and that so easy to understand

afjanuar

I realized 100% thanks Jade

zagor63

thank you but is it right I have got? or I have gotten? which one is correct?

Sadatshahen

Thanks. ;) 7/9

Zikoniss

Nice lesson that I have learnt first time.. Thanks

Ishu

Very nice that I have learnt first time..
Thanks..

Ishu

And that’s all? ….:-(((Thanks

SarahL

Thanks for your support Jade!

fabioabreureis@gmail.com

i don’t understand this lessan

imoayed90

Hi, this topic is very interesting and important for the learner english, but I would want to know more about the auxiliar verbs, not just how recognize them in a sentence. For instance, for me is important understand when I must to use To be or do in a question…Someone can say me if is there a lesson with this topic in engvid? Thanks

Vexio

Hi, I’ve got 100 on this Lesson..

Emersom

thanks for lesson

Emo-

\0/…67 ? I need to practice more !

Lucas Avelino

I am enjoying the lessons!

fuadyh

I got 6 correct out of 9.
keep working
Thank you Jade. and engVi

YiYu

I have got nine correct out of 9, and I found some tricks of these auxiliary verbs:

1. do/ does/ did + v.
2. have/ has/ had + been + present participle v.
3. have/ has/ had + past participle v.
4. will/ might/ can/ could/ would/ should + v.
5. will/ might/ can/ could/ would/ should + have/ has + past participle v.

Could I give you some advice, Jade? The information of your lesson is great, but your speaking doesn’t flow enough for me. I felt bad when I was listening to your class. Your speaking was frequently interrupted, even if I have tried to focus on your speaking but you often interrupted sound making me feel anxious. So could you try to stream your speaking at your class?