... activity and having a progressive to an activity but to a state or form to indicate duration condition The sense of duration is a For example: part of the lexical meaning of the It rained a lot last ... verbs and their complementation so that suggestions and solutions can be made Design of the study The study begins with acknowledgements, table of contents, and symbols and abbreviations The main ... there is a number of marginal auxiliaries (dare, need, ought to, used to) that shares some of the characteristics of the auxiliaries, and a large group of semi-auxiliaries (auxiliaries-like verbs) ...