HELPING VERB

Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language | 1998 | 225 words | Copyright

HELPING VERB. An informal term for AUXILIARY VERB, the class of verbs (such as be, have, do, may, will) that may combine with a following main verb to form a verb phrase, such as is watching, has eaten, may have been playing.

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