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  1. auxiliary verb love

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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A verb, such as have, can, or will, that accompanies the main verb in a clause and helps to make distinctions in mood, voice, aspect, and tense.

Wiktionary

  1. n. grammar A verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause in order to make distinctions in tense, mood, voice or aspect.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. 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

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synonyms (1)

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  1. helping verb

antonyms (1)

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  1. full verb

hypernyms (1)

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  1. verb

hyponyms (4)

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  1. modal auxiliary verb
  1. modal verb
  1. modal
  1. modal auxiliary

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  1. modal
  2. modal auxiliary
  3. modal auxiliary verb
  4. modal verb
  5. have
  1. auxiliary
  2. primary verb
  3. a
  4. participle
  5. be
  1. gin
  2. bare infinitive
  3. aux.
  4. aux. v.
  5. flown
  1. present participle
  2. pluperfect
  3. should
  4. tense
  5. will
  1. would
  2. can
  3. do
  4. may
  5. stand

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