Non-MODAL AUXILIARIES 

Non-MODAL AUXILIARIES. Ronalda wong 320057261.

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Statement of Context/ Background Info. Identify the helping verbs in the following sentences: Jenny is tall. He has been overweight for many years..

Main Issues. 1. The traditional meaning of a verb ('an action word' is flawed). 2. Non-modal auxiliaries are often times neglected in terms of its semantics. Some scholars view these verbs as 'dummies'; I.e., serving no purpose (Newson, 2012). This neglect is transferred to students and usually ends up being totally misunderstood, or abandoned in Grammar teaching..

Statement of Task's Aim. To introduce the topic of non-modal auxiliaries. To identify some roles of non modals To see how context of verbs differs (auxiliaries vs main verbs).

Non-modal Auxiliary Verbs. We will be looking at: Be (ser/ estar ) Do ( hacer ).

Be Is Am Are Was Been Were Being. BE. EXAMPLES:. 1. They were tired. / Ellas estaban cansadas / Dey was tired ..

1. Present continuous tense.. - We are winning the match. / We winning de match./ Nosotras estamos ganando el partido.

Trinidadian English Creole 'to be'. The present participle does the work of 'to be' and '- ing ': Petal running home. We eating. Past tense is formed using adverbial phrases instead of auxiliaries. We eat this morning/ We eat already..

Do Does Doing Did Done. 1. You do know the answers/ You know de answers / Ya sabes la respuesta.

1. Use as an auxiliary, with main verb to form questions..

Verb 'to do' in T.E.C. 1. When a habitual action is described, it is expressed the form 'does' is used with a singular or plural subject (Richards, 1970): He does always sing that song Or 'He does always be singing that song' 2. The inflection 'done' is used to denote completion: We done finish that..

Conclusion.. The aims of this presentation were: - to show the roles of two non-modals - to show how its use differs in T.E.C - to reinforce that these non-modals can also be used as main verbs depending on context.

References. Newson, M., & Szécsényi, K. (2012). Dummy auxiliaries and late vocabulary insertion. The Even Yearbook , 10 , 80-125. Richards, H. (1970). Trinidadian Folk Usage and Standard English: A Contrastive Study. Word , 26 (1), 79-87..