Auxiliary Verbs in English
The following sections consider auxiliary verbs in English. A list of auxiliary verbs is produced, and then the diagnostics that motivate this special class (subject-auxiliary inversion and negation with not) are presented. The modal verbs are included in this class due to their behavior with respect to these diagnostics.
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