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Listen carefully and write the verbs in the appropriate column.
| Main verb | Auxiliary verb | Modal auxiliary |
Teacher: can, give, following, commanded, get, has, been, spare, does, take, hand, have, fall, forgive, let, drag, return, will, is, try, has, must, be, resist, force, speak, are, were, should, had, thought, lost, would, says, was, are, does, may, cannot, demand, shall, shouldn’t, become, reign
Solution
| Main verb | Auxiliary verb | Modal auxiliary |
| are, become, commanded, demand, does, drag, fall, following, force, forgive, get, give, hand, has, let, lost, reign, resist, return, says, spare, speak, take, thought, try | are | can |
| be | cannot | |
| been | may | |
| does | must | |
| had | shouldn't | |
| has | shall | |
| have | should | |
| is | will | |
| was | would | |
| were |
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