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Found they the book?
Think you it is true?
But we say instead:
Does he come with them?
Did you study yesterday?
Did they find the book?
Do you think it is true?
Exercise 6
Write in the blank space before each sentence the number of the paragraph which governs the use of the helping verb do or did in that sentence.
1. ...... Slaves do not think; they obey.
2. ...... Men do not obey; they think.
3. ...... Do you know that two per cent of the people own sixty per cent of the wealth?
4. ...... The children of the masses do not have the opportunity to attend school.
5. ...... Did not every nation claim a war for defense?
6. ......"We did not dare to breathe a prayer,
Or give our anguish scope."
7. ...... We do desire the freedom of the people.
8. ...... We did hope that war might be averted.
Let us sum up the auxiliary or helping verbs.
184. Helping verbs are used to express:
The different time forms—shall, will, have, had, be.
Power to do or to be—can, could, might.
Permission—may and might.
Possibility—may and might.
Obligation—must, ought and should.
Necessity—must.
Condition—would.
Mark the helping verbs in the following exercise:
Exercise 7
The earth shall rise on new foundations.
We have been naught, we shall be all.
No more tradition's chains shall bind us.
Oh! Liberty! Can man resign thee?
Can dungeon's bolts and bars confine thee?
Capital could never have existed if labor had not first existed.
What can I do? I can talk out when others are silent. I can say man when others say money.
Do you hear the children weeping, O my brothers?
Political freedom can exist only where there is industrial freedom. Political democracy can exist only where there is industrial democracy.
Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.
If there is anything that cannot bear free thought, let it crack.
No doctrine, however established, should be protected from discussion.
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives the preaching of a new gospel.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.
No picture of life can have any variety which does not admit the odious facts.
I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.
Exercise 8
Note the use of the helping verbs in the following quotation. Could you use might or must or ought anywhere and strengthen the emphasis?
"I have looked at this claim by the light of history and my own confidence, and it seems to me, so looked at, to be a most just claim, and that resistance to it means nothing short of a denial of the whole of civilization.
This then is the claim:
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