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Discussion Groups / English Usage / May 2009It helped make me......
The following is an excerpt from books review. -quote- I grew up with those books. In their pages I discovered a host of great literary figures. It helped make me a lifelong reader. -unquote- The "helped make" is "verb + verb". Would anyone please explain the above grammar. Thanks in advance. > The following is an excerpt from books review. from a book-review OR from a book's review > The "helped make" is "verb + verb". > Would anyone please explain the above grammar. > > Thanks in advance. There is an implied 'to' between the two verbs > The following is an excerpt from books review. > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > The "helped make" is "verb + verb". > Would anyone please explain the above grammar. No: helped make = auxiliary verb + main verb. "Help" is a special type of auxiliary verb (like the modal auxiliary verbs) i.e. not functionally identical with has/had, do/did and the more common auxiliary verbs: but remains (in this sentence) an auxiliary verb as distinct from a main verb.  SignatureDon Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) > > The following is an excerpt from books review. > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > Carlsbad Springs > (Ottawa, Canada) Thank you very much. Your explanation is very clear and helpful. Please read the following excerpt from Wikipeida. Do we have more auxiliary verbs than Wiki mentioned in its documents? --quote-- There are 6 auxiliary verbs in English: be, have, do, can, may and should. Conjugated we obtain 24 auxiliary words: am, is, are, shall, should, be, being, been, was, were, will, would, has, have, had, do, does, did, can, could, may, might, must, ought(to) --unquote-- Thanks in advance. |
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