have, be, or do?

have, be, or do?

The verbs have, be and do can be both full (main) verbs and auxiliary (helping) verbs.

Full verb - have

• I have a Honda motorbike.

• She has three brothers.

• They didn't have any breakfast this morning.

• The hadn't arrived when we had the meeting.

Auxiliary verb have

• Have you seen the new James Bond movie?

• Before the weather changed I had had a great time.

• Has the cat been fed yet?

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Full verb be

• I am a teacher

• The weather was very hot yesterday.

• She isn't there right now.

Auxiliary verb - be

• She's working today.

• He wasn't using the right tool.

• They have been studying hard.

Full verb - do

• I did 40 km on my bike today.

• My brother never does any housework

• What did you do last night?

Auxiliary verb do

• Do you like action movies?

• When does the plane take off?

• How did you find the meal?

• They didn't visit England this year because of Covid 19.

Complete this sentence with the correct form of have, be or do. Is it a full or auxiliary verb?

• They .... finished supper when we arrived.

• They had finished supper when we arrived. Auxiliary

• We ... pizza for supper last night.

• We had pizza for supper last night. Full

Look at Ex 6 Page 7 of the workbook

• Enter the correct form of the verb and write F for Full or A for Auxiliary verb.

• e.g.

• 1) had, A

• 2) had, F