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auxiliary
An auxiliary is a person who is employed to assist other people in their work. Auxiliaries are often medical workers or members of the armed forces. -
double modal
a syntactic construction in which two modal auxiliaries occur consecutively within a clause, as might could in I might could help you. -
navy
the whole body of warships and auxiliaries belonging to a country or ruler. -
participle
an adjective or complement to certain auxiliaries that is regularly derived from the verb in many languages and refers to participation in the action or state of the verb; a verbal form used as an adjective. It does not specify person or number in English, but may have a subject or object, show tense, etc., as burning, in a burning candle, or devoted in his devoted friend. -
verb phrase
a group of words including a verb and its complements, objects, or other modifiers that functions syntactically as a verb. In English a verb phrase combines with a noun or noun phrase acting as subject to form a simple sentence.