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Main Verbs: Definition and Examples The main verb is also called the lexical verb or the principal verb. This term refers to the important verb in the sentence, the one that typically shows the action or state of being of the subject. Main verbs can stand alone, or they can be used with a helping verb, also called an auxiliary verb. Here’s a tip:  Want to make sure your writing always looks great? Grammarly can save you from misspellings, grammatical and punctuation mistakes, and other writing issues on all your favorite websites. Helping verbs do just what they sound like they do—they help! Different helping verbs help or support the main verb in different ways. For instance, they can show tense (which indicates when an action happened), ability, intention, or possibility. The primary helping verbs are  to be, to do,  and  to have . To better understand how helping verbs support main verbs, consider the exampl...

Using Articles What is an article? Basically, an article is an adjective. Like adjectives, articles modify nouns. English has two articles:  the  and  a/an .  The  is used to refer to specific or particular nouns;  a/an  is used to modify non-specific or non-particular nouns. We call  the  the  definite article and  a/an  the  indefinite  article. the = definite article a/an = indefinite article For example, if I say, "Let's read  the  book," I mean a  specific  book. If I say, "Let's read  a book," I mean  any  book rather than a specific book. Here's another way to explain it:  The  is used to refer to a  specific  or  particular  member of a group. For example, "I just saw  the  most popular movie of the year." There are many movies, but only one particular movie is the most popular. Therefore, we use  the . "A/an" is us...

Line 1 Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, Our speaker is describing a fork in the road. This poem was first published in 1916, when cars were only just beginning to become prominent, so these roads in the wood are probably more like paths, not roads like we'd think of them today. The woods are yellow, which means that it's probably fall and the leaves are turning colors. "Diverged" is just another word for split. There's a fork in the road. Lines 2-3 And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood The speaker wants to go down both roads at once, but since it's impossible to walk down two roads at once, he has to choose one road. The speaker is "sorry" he can't travel both roads, suggesting regret. Because of the impossibility of traveling both roads, the speaker stands there trying to choose which path he's going to take. Because he's standing, we know that he's on foot, and not in a carriage or...

Robert Frost    "The Road Not Taken" " The Road Not Taken" is an ambiguous poem that allows the reader to think about choices in life, whether to go with the mainstream or go it alone. If life is a journey, this poem highlights those times in life when a decision has to be made. Which way will you go? The ambiguity springs from the question of free will versus determinism, whether the speaker in the poem consciously decides to take the road that is off the beaten track or only does so because he doesn't fancy the road with the bend in it. External factors therefore make up his mind for him. Robert Frost wrote this poem to highlight a trait of, and poke fun at, his friend Edward Thomas, an English-Welsh poet, who, when out walking with Frost in England would often regret not having taken a different path. Thomas would sigh over what they might have seen and done, and Frost thought this quaintly romantic. In other word...