Imagine you're meeting a coworker for the first time and you’re making small talk. What might you say to them? 

“How do you do?” 

“How has your project been going?” 

“How are you feeling today?” 

Those phrases all mean similar things, but if you switch around the auxiliary verbs a friendly and polite conversation could turn miserable and confusing:

“How are you do?” 

“How do the project been going?” 

“How have you feeling this morning?” 

Changing these few little words can mean the difference between the start of a fruitful partnership and starting off on the absolute wrong foot! That’s because those words, also known as auxiliary verbs, are small but mighty parts of a sentence.  

📝 Accompanying blog post: https://intrepidenglish.co.uk/how-to-use-auxiliary-verbs-do-have-and-be/

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