auxiliary-verb |
1. Used with the past participle of a transitive verb to form the passive voice: The mayoral election is held annually. |
2. Used with the present participle of a verb to express a continuing action: We are working to improve housing conditions. |
3. Used with the infinitive of a verb to express intention, obligation, or future action: She was to call before she left. You are to make the necessary changes. |
4. Archaic Used with the past participle of certain intransitive verbs to form the perfect tense: "Where be those roses gone which sweetened so our eyes?” ( Philip Sidney). |
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verb-intransitive |
1. To exist in actuality; have life or reality: I think, therefore I am. |
2. To occupy a specified position: The food is on the table. |
3. To remain in a certain state or situation undisturbed, untouched, or unmolested: Let the children be. |
4. To take place; occur: The test was yesterday. |
5. To go or come: Have you ever been to Italy? Have you been home recently? |
6. Used as a copula in such senses as: |
7. To equal in identity: "To be a Christian was to be a Roman” ( James Bryce). |
8. To have a specified significance: A is excellent, C is passing. Let n be the unknown quantity. |
9. To belong to a specified class or group: The human being is a primate. |
10. To have or show a specified quality or characteristic: She is witty. All humans are mortal. |
11. To seem to consist or be made of: The yard is all snow. He is all bluff and no bite. |
12. To belong; befall: Peace be unto you. Woe is me. |
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