The one thing the two words have in common is their function; which is, they act as auxiliary verbs. Otherwise also known as helping verbs, auxiliary verbs add functionality to main verbs.

One parameter is the fact that English uses the auxiliary verb to function as a host for tense when tense cannot lower. It cannot be universally determined what verb each languages uses as a dummy ...

WASHINGTON: Bangalore may have become only the 2nd modern city in the world to be turned into a verb after 'Shanghaied' - a word that broadly means to force - thanks to the outsourcing controversy.