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Have you ever heard of a "helping
verb" before? Maybe you've heard
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the more fancy name, "auxiliary".
Pronounced with a G and a Z, auxiliary.
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This word means additional. the airplane has
auxiliary fuel tanks. So, the main tanks and then,
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additional auxiliary tanks. And yes, I find
that word pretty hard to pronounce. So, let's
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just stick with helping verbs. A helping verb is
not the main verb. For example, "I can hear you."
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"Here" is my main verb. It's stressed.
I can hear you - here you.
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"Can" is our helping verb, it's not stressed, in
fact, it's reduced, it's said very, very quickly.
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I can hear you, can, can.
Very different from hear - can.
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You want that different quality of stressed,
and unstressed syllables when speaking English.
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