Medical Transcription and Healthcare Experience Sharing

Last lesson dealt in our free MT course blog was about how to use ' ought to ' as an auxiliary verb. In this post we would learn about a new topic of auxiliary verb ‘need’.  Need is a verb and an auxiliary, by using need in any tense needed is used in any tense with the appropriate auxiliary. Use of need as an auxiliary:  1. When we want to give the meaning ‘necessity or importance or obligation’ in a sentence. 2. In the question forms usually. Some of the rules and regulations of this auxiliary verb are: 1. In the simple present tense the auxiliary ‘need’ is used in the present form of the verb. 2. In the present continuous tense the auxiliary ‘need be’ is used in the present ending in –ing  form of the verb. 3. In the future in the past tense, the auxiliary ‘need have’ is used in the past participle form of the verb. 4. In the future in the past continuous tense, the auxiliary ‘need have been’ is used in the present in –ing form of the verb. Whenever the sen...

Last lesson in our free MT course blog  dealt about the usage of ' MUST ' as an auxiliary verb. Now we will see about the uses of  “Ought to”: 1. To show or express duty or obligation (Ought to is stronger than Must) or expectations. 2. It is used in the future in the past tense.  Some of the rules for ought to are: 1. In simple present tense this auxiliary ‘ought to’ is used in the present form of the verb. 2. In present continuous tense this auxiliary ‘ought to be’ is used in the verb in the present form of –ing. 3. In future in the past tense this auxiliary ‘ought to have’ is used in the verb in the past participle of the verb.  4. In future in the past continuous tense this auxiliary ‘ought to have been’ is used in the verb in the present ending in –ing form. Whenever the sentence of the structure expresses duty or obligation, then some of the examples of the structures of the sentences are given below. 1. The passengers ought to report at the enq...

In the series of learning medical transcription course , we dealt about ' WOULD ' usage in the prior lesson. Now we will study about the use of MUST as an auxiliary verb in English grammar.  Uses of  ‘must’: 1. Must is used as an auxiliary to show duty or obligation (Here ‘must’ is stronger than ‘should’) 2. Must is used in future in the past tense. Let us come to know certain rules which is used in the tense of auxiliary form of the verb. A. In the simple present tense form the auxiliary ‘must’ is used in the present form of the verb. B. In the present continuous tense form the auxiliary ‘mustbe’ is used in the present form ending with –ING. C. In the future in the past tense the auxiliary ‘must have’ is used in the past participle form. D. In the future in the past continuous tense ‘must have been’ is used in the present form ending in –ing. Whenever the structure of the sentence expresses duty or obligation, the structures is shown as below examples: 1. ...

The introduction begins by explaining the origins of Precision in Clinical Documentation, the reason for the use of Auxiliary Verbs. Like many words we use in our day to day life, the word ‘would’ seems like a very mundane word to occur in a sentence but is actually quite powerful as a structural word. Most writers use it in the conditional tense or in the hypothetical future tense ('what if'), but it has a much greater application in the real world. To the uninitiated, the word "would" may just appear to be a softer, gentler version of "will. But for anyone who comes to grips with this “auxiliary verb,” it becomes a time-travelling machine, a sign of strong will and a symbol of linguistic determination. These grammatical nuances are particularly important for any medical transcription jobs. For health documentation, there is no such thing as being "too precise": syntactical accuracy is the basis of an authentic clinical record. A wrongly recorded auxil...