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How to use 'Keep' and 'Kept' in English

In this blog post, we are going to learn now about English grammar auxiliaries, such as KEEP and KEPT. Keep and Kept act both as auxiliaries also as verbs. Okay. When we can use KEEP and KEPT in sentences? We can use these two words in sentences when we try to convey an action that is continuing that is an ongoing action. These two auxiliaries can only be used with the help of other auxiliaries only, but cannot be used by themselves. Now we will see in what are the tenses, KEEP and KEPT can be used. We know the point that KEEP and KEPT can be used with other auxiliaries, such as DOES, DO, CAN, MAY, WOULD, SHALL, WILL, HAS, HAD, HAVE, WILL HAVE, WOULD HAVE, and SHOULD HAVE. In what are the tense types they can be used? We will see one by one now. In the simple present tense, KEEP and KEPT can be used with DO, DOES, CAN, MAY, WOULD by adding ING in the word KEEP. For example see these sentences.  Do you keep writing novels?  The answer is Yes, I do keep writing novels.