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Welcome to this tutorial.

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Today we're going to talk about the helping verb to be.

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Let's get started.

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Now we use auxiliary verbs which are also known as helping verbs to form questions negative sentences

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compound sentences the perfect tense or the continuous tense and the passive voice.

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Note that the basic auxiliary verbs are to be to do and to have

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note that the helping verb to be can't be used as an auxiliary and a main verb.

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Have a look at the following examples.

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My sister is kind now in this sentence.

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The verb is is the main verb and in this sentence My sister is cooking dinner.

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The verb is is an auxiliary verb that helps to build the present continuous tense.

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Cooking dinner

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remember that the verb to be is irregular.

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Have a look at the table below.

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Now the base form of the verb to be is be present for M is or are past for was or were present participle

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or gerund being past participle.

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Been

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now you can use the auxiliary verb to be a when you don't want to repeat something for example every

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one was working that day but I wasn't meaning I wasn't working

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B to deny something or see that it's not true.

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For example you're being unreasonable No I'm not meaning I'm not being unreasonable

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C to show interest in what somebody has said or to show surprise for example Kelly and Peter are dating

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are they really showing surprise deals with.

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So when you agree and neither or nor when you disagree.

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For example I'm sleepy so am I.

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I agree.

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I'm sleepy too.

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My parents are never late.

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Neither are mine.

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Meaning that my parents are never late either.