Minggu, 05 April 2020

Modal Auxiliaries - English in Business


Modal Auxiliary is a small group of auxiliary verbs, called the modal verbs (or modal auxiliary verbs, modal auxiliaries, or simply modals) are only used in combination with ordinary verbs. A modal verb changes the other verb's meaning to something different from simple fact. Modals may express permission, ability, prediction, possibility, or necessity.

The principal modal verbs are: can, could, may, might, must, ought, shall, should, will, and would.

The modal verbs are different from ordinary verbs in several ways: 
  1. they have no inflections at all; that is, they lack an -ing form, an -ed form, and even an -s form for the third-person singular
  2. a modal verb is always followed by the infinitive form of a verb (unless that verb has already been stated) but never follows another verb
  3. modal verbs do not follow to and are not followed by to. (Ought to, like the near-modal verb have to, is a special case.)


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