📄️ Introduction
These three verbs live a double life. They can be auxiliary verbs used to form questions, negatives, emphatic forms, perfect and progressive tenses, and passives. Be can also be a linking verb, and have and do can be ordinary full verbs. For this reason, each of them can appear twice in a single phrase.
📄️ "be": general
Be can be an auxiliary verb, used to form progressive and passive structures ( (see here), (see here).
📄️ "be": progressive forms
I am being / you are being, etc + adjective/noun
📄️ "be" with auxiliary "do"
Normally, be is used without the auxiliary do.
📄️ there is
Use
📄️ "have": introduction
Have is used in several different ways:
📄️ "have": auxiliary verb
have + past participle
📄️ "have": actions
Meaning and typical expressions
📄️ have (got): possession, relationships and other states
Meanings
📄️ "be" and "have"
Physical conditions: hunger, thirst, etc
📄️ "do": introduction
Do has three main uses.
📄️ "do": auxiliary verb
The auxiliary verb do is followed by infinitives without to. It has several uses.
📄️ "do": substitute verb ("I may do.")
auxiliary verb + do
📄️ do so/it/that
do so