is become a helping verb or the main verb?
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It is usually a main verb. I can't think of any cases where it would be secondary or helping.
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'get' is correct. The verb which needs to be in past tense is 'to do', not 'to get'
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"Are" is a conjugation of the verb "to be", which is used, among other things, to describe qualities or states of being.  You would say "Are you hungry?" because "hungry" is an adjective. \n\n"Do" is an auxiliary verb that is used in questions along with another verb: for example, "Do you sing?" is a good question.  It is equivalent to "Is it true that you sing?" \n\nMore examples:\n\nAre you okay? ("okay" is an adjective)\nYes, I am okay.\n\nDo you smoke? ("smoke" is a verb here)\nYes, I smoke.\n\nAre you running?\nNo, I am not running.\n("running" is a participle, which is an adjective formed from a verb)\n\nDo you run? ("run" is a verb here)\nNo, I do not run.\n("do not" + verb infinitive is how to answer "no".)\n\nDoes he love cake?\nYes, he loves cake.\n(you conjugate "to do" and you leave the verb like "love" in the infinitive.)\n\nDoes she hate you?\nNo, she does not hate me.\n\nAre you thirsty? ("thirsty" is an adjective)\nNo, I am not thirsty.\n\nAre they tired? ("tired" is an adjective)\nYes, they are tired.\n\nIs she pretty? ("pretty" is an adjective)\nYes, she is very pretty.\n\nGet the idea?
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Verb - a 'doing' word.\n\nIn this sentence, the verb is 'stop'.\n\nA transitive verb is one that can take an object.  For example:  'I hit John'.  ('hit' is 'transitional' between 'I' and 'John').\n\nAn intransitive verb is one that does not take an object.  For example: 'laugh'.  (I can laugh but I cannot laugh something/someone).\n\nSome verbs (like 'stop') can be transitive OR intransitive.  Example:  The noise stopped.  (Intransitive) as opposed to 'I stopped the noise'.  (Transitive).\n\nIn your sentence, 'stop' is used intransitively.\n\nI am not sure what you mean by a 'linking verb'.  If you mean an auxiliary verb, then 'has' is an auxiliary verb in your sentence.  (The sentence uses the present perfect simple tense of 'stop'.  This tense uses the verb 'have' as an auxiliary.  It's a question, so the auxiliary verb and subject are inverted.  'Has the noise stopped.')
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b - understanding\nThis is so because you have changed 'understand' into a noun, which here is called a 'gerund'; the other given forms are verb forms and do not fit.
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It is a predicate (verb) that contains two or more verbs. For example, "He is eating a sandwich." Is eating is a compound verb phrase. "He has been taking piano lessons." Has been taking. "I was given a beautiful scarf for my birthday." Was given. "I am hungry" Am is a simple predicate because there is only one verb in the predicate. \nAnd so on.
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"Yes, I am." as in "Yes, I am coming to your party tonight" is the more proper of the two, I think, considering the context.\nJust because one sounds better, doesn't make it grammatically correct. If you are unsure about certain responses, try to put them into a full sentence, to determine if they sound right.\nThink about it:\n"Are you coming to my party tonight?"\nCorrect: "Yes, I am coming to your party tonight."\nIncorrect: "Yes, I will coming to your party tonight."\nOr alternatively: "Yes, I will be coming to your party tonight." \nYou are just shortening a sentence.
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One trick in writing is to eliminate 'I' from the sentence.  Try to substitute it for something else.  The world is not just about ourselves.  Some examples: 1. It is my intention to..........  2.  If allowed my idea is to.........  3. My goals are to..................  4.  Personally, it is guaranteed that .............  Get the idea?  Hopefully, this helps you (instead of "I hope this helps.")
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Infinitives are NOT verbs. They are to plus the verb used as another part of speech.\n\nExample. To ask shows you need to know. (To ask is an infinitive used as a noun and is the subject of the verb is.)\n\nExample: I love to get presents. (To get is an infiniive   used as a noun and is the direct object of the verb get.)\n\nExample: She is the candidate to vote for. (To vote is an infinitive used as an adjective modifying person.\n\nExample: She is a person to imitate. (To imitate is an infinitve used as an adjective modifying person.\n\nExample: The train was ready to depart. (To depart is an infinitive used as an adverb adverb modifying the adverb ready.)\n\nNOTE: The infinitive is "to plus the verb." DO NOT confuse it with the word to plus a noun or pronoun which is a prepositional phrase. Example: He walked to the store.\n\nGerunds are the ing ending of verbs used as nouns.\n\nExamples:\nWalking is fun. (noun as the subject of is)\nI like walking. (noun as the direct object of like)\nI think I will give walking a try. (noun as the indirect object of the verb think)\n\nMy favorite exercise is walking. (noun used as a predicte nominative following a non-action verb and renamimg the subject walking.)\n\nI never thought of walking. (noun, object of the prepositon of)\n\nRemember, the part of speech of a word is determined by its FUNCTION in the sentence.\n\nClauses are the same. IF the clause modifies a noun or pronoun, it is an adjective clause. Example. That is the prize which I want. (which I want is an adjective clause that modifies prize).\n\nThat I love chocolate ice cream is a well-known fact. (That I love ice cream is a subordinate clause that is a noun used as the subject of the verb is.\n\nWhen I get to school, I plan to study for the test. (When I get to school is an adverb clause modifying the verb plan.)\n\nI wish I had an hour or two with you. I could teach you all the grammar you would ever need to know. This limited space makes it difficult to do the job. I hope what I have done helps you!!
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Here you go...\nhttp://english.donnayoung.org/pos/helpingverbs.htm
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The two basic parts to a sentence are the subject and the predicate.\n\nA subject tells who or what the sentence is mostly about (noun or pronoun).\nThe predicate shows action or a state of being (verb).\nA sentence also requires a complete thought.\n\nYour examples all contain two complete thoughts, but only one of them is joined correctly (with a comma and a conjunction) as a compound sentence. (You also need to add a period.)
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Here is a hint for the ones you have given us.  Anything that comes after his, her, my, their, or a word that ends with 's is a noun.  Anything that comes after is, are, become, turned into, was, etc. is an adjective.  This is the best that I can help you, as I am not 100% sure what you are talking about.
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You can use both, but it's not a question of "subject/verb" agreement!\nIt's linked to "If" as in "If I were you". It's just a matter of feasability of the action (is it very probable or not).\nAs for the "subject/verb" agreement, it has to be "was" because the only subject is "your answer" and if you had to change the end of the sentence by a singular noun "a photo", it'd stay the same!\nHope it helps!
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Ok, this verb actually comes from Old Norse into Middle English, not Old English as I first thought.  The original Middle would have been "geten," similar in usage to the phrases beget, begat, begotten from Latin.  "Geten" would have been the form for all of the phrases originally.  I geten, he geten, they geten, etc.  No change.  That's how many of the Old and Middle verbs were.  \n\nEventually, a second form evolved (linguistically): gotten, probably from the above change of the word begat from Latin, which is actually a completely different word from a different language, not used in the same sense, but probably from the same root in the Proto-English language that existed before the year 450 C.E.  \n\nEventually, this new verbal form, gotten (which, incidently, would be the actual correct form to use in the phrase "I have gotten the note" instead of "I got the note.") degenerated into got to shorten the phrasing.  So, really, the only reason that we use the form got to refer to a specific time/place is because at some point the language masters of the Elizabethan age declared that the word gotten sounded better than the word geten (don't even ask about the shift from one "t" to two "t"s in verbal forms, it's some weird German thing) and so they made it the precise time/place transition.  \n\nThey did a lot of that kind of stuff at the beginning of the Middle to Modern English switch.  They language masters who were printing books were trying to make a common spelling and grammar among the English speakers before true mass printing came into being.\n\nHope this helped!
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All English verbs can take -ing - as this is how they form particples.  What you mean - I assume - is that some verbs rarely if ever get used in a continuous tense.\n\nThese verbs are often called 'stative verbs'.  'Know' is a prime example and I cannot think of situtaion where a continuous form would be appropriate.  (However, the participle is often used.  Example:  'Knowing Fred's appetite, I expected to find him near the fridge.')\n\n'See' is slightly different.  'I have been seeing quite a lot of David recently' - is quite acceptable usage.\n\n'Hear' is also OK.  I work in an international school where students have to speak English during the day.  'I'm not hearing enough English!'  Is often a playful warning teachers give their students.\n\nWhere the meaning is either 'right now' or 'recently more than usual', the present continuous for such verbs is fine.\n\n'Remember' is also fine.  A patient in hospital might say that he originally had no memory of his accident.  'However, in the last few days I've been remembering more and more details.'\n\nSo, the assumption on which your question is based is not wholly true.
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To bring about, summon\nTo influence or effect\nTo call or imagine
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By each sentence:\n\nThe simple subject is a noun or pronoun that does something.\nThe predicate is the action word...it's what's happening.\n\n1.  Earnest and Raoul  - 2 simple subjects\n.....now you fill in the predicate.....what they did?\n\n2.  Leadbelly is the subject....\nverb has two worlds....and it's not simple so by having two words in the predicate, it is compound....\n....so what did Leadbelly do?....predicate 2 words is:has _________.\n3. You is the subject\n.....what did you do...... first part of the predicate is have.....you misspelled the rest of the verb.\n\n4.  Leadbelly is the subject\n....what did Leadbelly do.......\nI'll give you this one......the predicate is:    was\n\nSo subjects :  do something...or are something,\npredicates or verbs:  are the action words, are what the subjects do, or ....are something....am, is, was, were......\n\nI hope this helps!!!