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What are auxiliary verbs? They are sometimes called helping verb but they can seem complicated and illogical
In this video, we are going to see that Auxiliary verbs are actually the most important thing to get tense right.

00:00 Introduction
00:23 If you really want to impove your English...
01:13 What is tense?
01:36 It's not about the main verb!
01:51 The third big idea of Inside English.
02:03 Examples
02:40 Verb analysis
03:06 Look at just the axiliary verbs
03:29 Type of action
04:16 Time of action
05:29 What tense are these sentences?
07:25 You can't use the main verb.
08:04 Simple tenses are a little complicated
08:50 Inside English Course

When people learn English there is often too much emphasis on the form of the main verb. This leads to confusion because it is actually the auxiliary verb that tells us more about tense.
This is the third big idea of our course Inside English.
That auxiliary verbs are the most important thing to get tense right.

There are three different forms of the verb, take, taking and taken, and lots of different auxiliary verbs, did, do am, was had and have.

Because there is one auxiliary verb for each different “type of action” we know the type of action just by looking at the auxiliary verb.

In the past tenses, the auxiliary verb uses its past simple form,“Do” becomes “did.” “Be” becomes “Was” or “Were.” “Have” becomes “had.”

The entire tense of a verb can be determined just from its auxiliary verb. Which auxiliary verb you use shows which “type of action” it is and the form of the auxiliary verb shows the “time of action”.

You can’t tell the tense just by looking at the form of the main verb.
The ing form can also be used to make a gerund which is not really a verb like in the sentence, ‘I like playing football’. The verb in that sentence is ‘like’.
The past participle is used in perfect tenses but it is also used to form the passive voice, like in the sentence ‘My car was taken.’ This sentence is not a perfect tense, it is in passive voice.

So paying too much attention to the main verb can’t tell us the tense of a sentence.
English puts most of the information about tense in the auxiliary verbs. And that is where your focus should be.

We have written a course called Inside English that goes a little deeper into these ideas and focuses on helping you to make sense of tense.
We’ve noticed that when learning about tenses, students often quickly get overwhelmed because there are a lot of things that make tense seem complicated.
But there really is a logic to English and in order to find it, you have to forget about the exceptions, the dozens of little rules and you have to focus on the basic principles of how it really works.

This course is designed for anyone hoping to improve their English with a particular focus on really understanding the tenses, how they are formed and when to use them.
By the end of the course you will be able to speak English more comfortably because you understand what each tense means. and you'll instinctively use each tense with the correct form because you understand the key ideas of how tenses work.
Instead of getting distracted and confused by the things that make the tenses complicated, we will stay focussed on the things that make tense make sense.

We have identified 3 key ideas which are often not clearly taught but are actually really important.
Then we will look at the main tenses and see how these key ideas apply to all them without exceptions.
If you sign up to the course you will get the content delivered within a structure that will systematically help you build on what you already know. You will also get interactive exercises so you can test yourself and help to retain what you have learned.
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The ideal student for this course is someone who speaks English but gets confused by irregular verbs or lacks confidence because there are too many exceptions to those rules and because of this feels like there is too much to learn.

If you want to know more then use the link in the description to find out how to sign up.
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