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Auxiliary verbs Common Mistakes

Auxiliary verbs Common Mistakes

Mar 30, 20251 min read

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How long have you ____ your house by the beach?

✅ had ❌ got

  • Have (=‘possess’) is a regular verb. We form the present perfect of any regular verb with have + past participle: have had.

It was dangerous. We might ____ had an accident.

✅ have ❌ had

  • We use some modals verbs + have + past participle to talk about the past. These forms are called past or perfect modals. You can do some practice on these verb forms here: Past modal verbs of deduction

I'm glad ____ (meet) you last night.

✅ that I met ✅ to have met

  • When an infinitive refers to a past situation, we can use the perfect infinitive: (to) + have + past participle

She was supposed to visit them, but she ____ .

✅ didn’t ❌ wasn’t

  • We can avoid repeating an adjective, a verb or verb phrase and repeat only the auxiliary or modal verb. Use do/does/did in the second clause or sentence when the verb is present or past simple.
  • She was supposed to visit them, but she didn’t (visit them).

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