Auxiliary verbs and Subjunctive

    Auxiliary verbs do not exist in Signology. They are not necessary. In order to say I have eaten or We had been, we use the same dots and arrows as follows:

    For the last two sentences it should be necessary to say something about the Subjunctive, but it is outside the scope of this introductory web page.

The verb TO BE as an Auxiliary verb

    The verb To Be in its static form (, see section 8. The verb To Be) is never used as an auxiliary verb. Just by looking at the picto we can see that it implies no movement, therefore to write I was working, like: , would be wrong. We may convey these meanings with the Continuous tense and the Gerund ( , ).

    When the subject of the sentence is not doing some action because he is passive, then we can use the picto , as it happens in the Passive Voice: