auxiliary verb

1. 1.

   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

   Broaderverb

   Narrowermodal auxiliary verb

Questions about auxiliary verb

What does auxiliary verb mean?

auxiliary verb means "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".

Is auxiliary verb a common word?

auxiliary verb is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.