THE ENGLISH PRIMARILY AUXILIARY VERBS: A CORPUS-BASED LIST IN 204 ACADEMIC JOURNALS REGARDING TO CORONAVIRUS

Abstract

Coronavirus, any virus belonging to the family Coronaviridae. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. The study aim to focused on the analysis a corpus-based list of primarily auxiliary verbs which taken from 204 academic journal articles regarding coronavirus that has 953290-word list and containing 26232 words type. This study found 953290-word list containing 26232-word type and 28.490 words which refer primarily auxiliary verbs. The method used AntConc software to analyse this research. The result shows that the researcher found primarily auxiliary verbs. In Table 1 they are: is, are, was, were, be, being and been. Table 2 are do, does, doing and did. In the Table 3 there are have, has, having and had. Based on the three tables, it can be seen that the verb ‘is’ is the highest rank and frequency of occurrence in 204 academic journal articles regarding to coronavirus which is ranked 16th and 6213 frequency. While the lowest rank and frequency of occurrence in 204 academic journal articles regarding to coronavirus is the verb ‘am’ with 0 frequency of occurrence and ranked.