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Sendian Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Lexical and auxiliary verbs

“The premier league clubs will meet week next to discuss the imposition of some radical new cost control measures.

I need to figure out the lexical and the auxiliary verbs

My offert is :

Will is a modal auxiliary verb helping the main verb meet, and it serves only to give additional meaning to the main or the lexical verb following it which is MEET here.

corret me and tell me if there isany other verb in this text please ?
  

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“The premier league clubs will meet next week to discuss the imposition of some radical new cost control measures". There are three verbs here: "will" is an auxiliary verb, and "meet" and "discuss" are lexical verbs. BillJ

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  • “The premier league clubs will meet next week to discuss the imposition of some radical new cost control measures".
  • There are three verbs here: "will" is an auxiliary verb, and "meet" and "discuss" are lexical verbs.
  • BillJ
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“The premier league clubs will meet next week to discuss the imposition of some radical new cost control measures".

There are three verbs here: "will" is an auxiliary verb, and "meet" and "discuss" are lexical verbs.

BillJ
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BillJThere are three verbs here: "will" is an auxiliary verb, and "meet" and "discuss" are lexical verbs.
An old song called I'm Willing to Learn comes to my mind when I see the term 'lexical verb'. Grammatical terms vary from country to country and I have no idea what it means. Could you please put me in the picture? Thank you.

CB
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Cool BreezeAn old song called I'm Willing to Learn comes to my mind when I see the term 'lexical verb'. Grammatical terms vary from country to country and I have no idea what it means. Could you please put me in the picture? Thank you.CB
Hello CB

The two main types of verb in English are the auxiliary verbs, comprising a small list of verbs with
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Thank you. I was aware of the term 'auxiliary verb' as it is commonly used in Scandinavia, too. It is also used in he grammar of other Germanic languages.

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