Assistive vs Auxiliary - What's the difference?
assistive | auxiliary |
Providing or designed to provide assistance, especially to persons with a disability
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Helping]]; [[give, giving assistance or support.
Supplementary or subsidiary.
Held in reserve for exceptional circumstances.
(nautical) Of a ship, having both sails and an engine.
(grammar) Relating to an auxiliary verb.
A person or group that acts in an auxiliary manner.
A sailing vessel equipped with an engine.
(grammar) An auxiliary verb.
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A marching band colorguard.
As adjectives the difference between assistive and auxiliary
is that assistive is providing or designed to provide assistance, especially to persons with a disability while auxiliary is helping; giving assistance or support.As a noun auxiliary is
a person or group that acts in an auxiliary manner.assistive
English
Adjective
(-)citation
auxiliary
English
Adjective
(-)- auxiliary troops
Synonyms
* (supplementary) accessory * (having sails and engine) motorsailerNoun
(auxiliaries)- The three traditionally recognized Non-modal Auxiliaries' are the per-
fective '''Auxiliary''' ''have'', the progressive '''Auxiliary''' ''be'', and the passive '''Auxiliary
''be''. Perfective ''have'' is so-called because it marks the completion (hence, ''perfec-
tion'') of an action; it is followed by a VP headed by a perfective ''-n'' participle, as
in:
(121) The referee has [VP ''shown him the red card]
