| 21. | In Mandarin the auxiliary verbs have six properties that distinguish them from main verbs:
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| 22. | Auxiliary verbs license negation, raising-to-subject verbs do so only reluctantly:
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| 23. | Many of these verbs are now used as auxiliary verbs.
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| 24. | Both use a combination of auxiliary verbs and verb endings.
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| 25. | Auxiliary verbs precede main verbs, prepositions precede their objects, and nouns precede their relative clauses.
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| 26. | Negation is expressed with an auxiliary verb, which is inflected for person, number and tense.
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| 27. | A third diagnostic that can be used for identifying auxiliary verbs is verb phrase ellipsis.
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| 28. | Auxiliary verbs are also used to modify the verb.
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| 29. | The auxiliary verb " biti " is pronounced differently in Kajkavian but similarly to Slovene.
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| 30. | It is also used to form the passive voice with a variety of auxiliary verbs.
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