AUXILIARY VERB

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("auxiliary verb" is a kind of...):

verb (the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "auxiliary verb"):

modal; modal auxiliary; modal auxiliary verb; modal verb (an auxiliary verb (such as 'can' or 'will') that is used to express modality)