Talk:Auxiliary verb
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[edit] "To be gone"
"English uses "be" only with "go" in some senses." Does that make any sense? We could just say that "gone" is an adjective. It's no use to say that "I'm gone" is a present perfect. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Army1987 (talk • contribs) 23:22, 31 October 2004 (UTC)
[edit] How did these come about?
I'm very curious as to why these verbs started to be used this way. In Middle and Old English one could say "I can music", so why did that change? When you think about it, many of these verbs are very illogical; to see the truth of this, just read this sentence: "Do you be hungry?" Pretty weird, eh? Well that's how weird "Do you want to dance" would sound if we weren't so used to the construction. I know I for one would love an explanation of how this bizarre phenomenon came about. Fuzzyblob 20:48, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
