They must usually appear in the attributive position, that is, before the noun they modify. In the previous section on adjectives, we learned of their rather rigid nature. When you modify a verb with an adverb, you must decide where to put it. Thus: I will write, I have written, I was writing, I should have written, and so on. They consist of one or more of the 16 auxiliary verbs ( be, do, have, can, could, dare, may, might, must, need, ought to, shall, should, used to, will, and would) and the main verb. These multiword verbs are called compound verbs. Recall that all other tenses require more than one word. These one-word verbs are called simple verbs. As we learned in the section on verbs, every one-word verb has a one-word present tense and a one-word past tense.
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