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title: "Types of verbs in English, the tense system II"
description: "Valencia, 15/04/2015, G.B.Continuando con el English tense system, podemos afirmar que en inglés existen 3 tipos de verbos (types of verbs):1.- Auxiliary verbs2.- Modal auxiliary verbs3.- Full..."
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# Types of verbs in English, the tense system II

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Valencia, 15/04/2015, G.B.
Continuando con el* **English tense system***, podemos afirmar que en inglés existen 3 tipos de verbos (**types of verbs**):

**1.- *Auxiliary verbs*
2.-* Modal auxiliary verbs*
3.- *Full verbs***

### 1.- Auxiliary verbs

Los verbos do, be y have se usan como verbos auxiliares para formar diferentes tiempos verbales (*tenses*).

**1.1 ****Do**
– **Do** es un verbo auxiliar que se usa para formar las formas negativas e interrogativas (*negative and question forms*) del *Present Simple*. La forma de este verbo auxiliar en pasado es *Did* y se utiliza en el *Past Simple*.

Some examples:

| | **Present Simple** | **Past Simple** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Negative** | *I don’t want to go there.* | *She didn’t go out yesterday, sorry. * |
| * * | *He doesn’t eat meat. He’s vegetarian.* | *Hopefully I didn’t break my arm.* |
| ** Question** | * Do you like cheese? * | * Did they know it, John? * |
| * * | *Does she play the piano? * | *Didn’t you play the violin, the guitar and other instruments?* |

– **Do** solo se usa en la forma afirmativa (*affirmative sentences*) para enfatizar la acción de un verbo:

*Some examples:*

| **Present Simple** | **Past Simple** |
| --- | --- |
| *I’m not lazy. I **do** study hard. * | *I **did** try to contact you last Friday, but you were unavailable, as they told me.* | |

– **Do** también se utiliza en las denominadas *tag questions* (preguntas coletillas) y las short answers (respuestas cortas). *Some examples*:

| **Present Simple** | **Past Simple** |
| --- | --- |
| *You think it’ll be enough, **don’t you?** * | *Who took my car last night? **Susan did.*** |

**1.2. Be**

– Be como auxiliar** + present participle (-ing)**, se utiliza para formar tiempos continuos (*continuous tenses*). *Some examples*:

*Raymond is recording an album.
I’ll be leaving soon, sorry.
It’s rainning, take an umbrella.*

– **Be + past participle **(-ed, etc.) se utiliza para formar las oraciones pasivas (*passive sentences*). *Some examples*:
*English is spoken all over the world.
My house is being renovated, so I’ll stay at the hotel.*
**
1.3. Have**
**
– Have** como auxiliar + **past participle **(-ed, etc.) se utiliza para formar tiempos perfectos (*perfect tenses*). *Some examples:*
*I’ve never been to India.
She have lived in India for 20 years.
Will you have finished by next monday?*

### 2.- Modal auxiliary verbs

Los verbos modales auxiliares (*modal auxiliary verbs*) son auxiliares porque ‘ayudan’ a otros verbos, pero a diferencia de do, be y have, tienen su propio significado. Pueden expresar certeza (certainty), habilidad (*ability*), posibilidad (*possibility*), consejo (*advice*), etc.

Los *modal auxiliary verbs* son: *can, could, may, might, will, would, shall, should, must, ought, need.  *Los iremos viendo poco a poco…* Some examples*:

*She can’t play the drums. (ability)*
*He must beat least forty. (certainty)
It might snow this  evening. (possibility)*
*You should eat less. (advice)*

### 3.- Full verbs

Todos los demás verbos, que son la gran mayoría en el idioma, se denominan full verbs o verbos ‘normales’. Algunos ejemplos: *go, drink, dance, study, help, sing, read*…