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Helping verbs are used to show tense or mood. In more complex sentences, they are used to show the perfect verb tenses, continuous/progressive/perfect verb tenses, and passive voice. Helping verbs are always followed by a second verb, though not always immediately. Helping verbs (also called auxiliaries) can be used before the word not. Main verbs can not. The auxiliary system in English is notorious for it’s complexity. There are about 24 billion billion logically possible combinations of auxiliaries, of which only about a hundred are grammatical (Pinker, 1995).
Because tense and mood can often be eliminated without sacrificing a sentence’s entire meaning, children that have difficulty with length and complexity of sentences do often eliminate these nonessential words. For example, “I talking.” can typically be understood as “I am talking.” Just as children with phonological processing disorders frequently simplify sound production, these same children frequently simplify morphology by omitting morphological markers, and syntax by omitting functional words. Among the most frequently omitted category of functional words are helping verbs.
Research suggests that children with specific language impairment do, in fact, have greater difficulty with functional words, such as auxiliary verbs, than MLU matched normally developing children (Leonard, 2000). These show up frequently on tests of language, including the CASL, CELF, OWLS, and SPELT tests. Helping verb difficulty coexists with many commonly deficient language skills, including subject verb agreement, negation, verb tense, phrases, clauses, questions, contractions, and suffixes.
Prerequisites: functional verb and noun id and labeling, tense, count noun identification
am, are, is, do, does, have, has, can
was, were, did, had, could, might, will, would, should, may
aren’t, isn’t, don’t, doesn’t, haven’t, hasn’t, can’t, wasn’t, weren’t, didn’t, hadn’t, couldn’t, won’t, wouldn’t, shouldn’t, he’s, he’d, he’ll, she’s, she’d, she’ll, we’ve, we’re, we’ll, you’re, you’ve, you’ll
will be, have been, has been, had been, should be, will have, might have, has eaten, have finished
will have finished, should have been, should not be, must have been eating
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Paul Morris
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