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** ''Smiling'', she went about her work" (modifies how she "went about her work")  
** ''Smiling'', she went about her work" (modifies how she "went about her work")  
** or "She went about her work ''smiling''"
** or "She went about her work ''smiling''"
==== participles and adverbs ====
==== participles and adverbs ====
* present participles may themselves be modified by an adverb
* present participles may themselves be modified by an adverb
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>> to chart out comparison of Latin, Spanish, French and English cases << to do
>> to chart out comparison of Latin, Spanish, French and English cases << to do


auxiliary verbs
* see
**[https://conjugator.reverso.net// Verb conjugations (Conjugator.net)]
**[[wikt:have#Conjugation|Have conjugation (wikitionary.com)]]


modal verbs
==== auxiliary verbs ====


Modal Verbs: Definition & Usage Examples | Grammarly Blog
==== modal verbs ====
>>  Modal Verbs: Definition & Usage Examples | Grammarly Blog
== Other parts of speech==
=== particle ===
* a word that does not fit a specific Part of Speech
** and that does not change with inflection (word endings for case, gender, number)


* see
==== adverbial particles ===
**[https://conjugator.reverso.net// Verb conjugations (Conjugator.net)]
* typically, particles are prepositions that do not accompany a noun
**[[wikt:have#Conjugation|Have conjugation (wikitionary.com)]]
** instead, they follow a verb to indicate a direction, topic, or other prepositional purpose for the verb
** particles: ''about, n up'' as in:
*** wake up, knock out, look up, sit down''
*** these examples are, together, ''phrasal verbs''
** particle + preposition
*** particles frequently are followed by a prepositional phrase, in which the particle (a preposition) is next to a preposition
**** ''keep up with the pack, put up with her stubbornness, look forward to leaving''