Kalima122
New member
- Joined
- May 3, 2012
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Arabic
- Home Country
- Somalia
- Current Location
- UK
Hello,
Ok I don't know how to start this but I have just recently started paying attention to English grammar and I am not a native speaker, which is making the whole thing even harder for me. Anyhow I have started with Auxiliary and lexical verbs and I am really struggling with distinguishing between the two in some context. I know one is used to help a sentence and the other is main verbs. I think I do get it, but when it comes to doing exercise questions I feel totally blank.
An example;
Are they still here ? I thought are here should be auxiliary because it doesn't make any meaning by itself and has only a grammatical meaning, but it is not!
So if anyone could help with a good and not much complicated reference that I could use, I would really appreciate it.
Ok I don't know how to start this but I have just recently started paying attention to English grammar and I am not a native speaker, which is making the whole thing even harder for me. Anyhow I have started with Auxiliary and lexical verbs and I am really struggling with distinguishing between the two in some context. I know one is used to help a sentence and the other is main verbs. I think I do get it, but when it comes to doing exercise questions I feel totally blank.
An example;
Are they still here ? I thought are here should be auxiliary because it doesn't make any meaning by itself and has only a grammatical meaning, but it is not!
So if anyone could help with a good and not much complicated reference that I could use, I would really appreciate it.