Analysis of Auxiliary Verbs

The purpose of this research is to examine Stromswold's description and analysis of what auxiliary verbs are and how they behave, chiefly in the context of language-skills acquisition by children. The auxiliary verbs are discussed in terms of three direct usage attributes: semantic (relating to meaning), syntactic (relation of auxiliaries to other words in a sentence), and lexical (the auxiliary as a word of vocabulary). As well, they are discussed and in terms of function, with auxiliaries (forms of be, have, do, and such "modal" verbs as could, should, and might) distinguished from main verbs, and the auxiliary verb be collapsed into be as copula (usage connecting subject with predicate).

The discussion is intended as an account of how children learn to recognize correct usage of

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