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Modals verbs are different from normal English verbs. Check modal verbs list with exercises, examples and free PDF
This is the fith edition of English Grammar in Use. I wrote the original edition when I was a teacher at the Swan School of English, Oxford. I would like to repeat my thanks to my former colleagues and students at the school for their help, encouragement and interest at that time.
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Question: Can you come? Negative question: Can he not walk? (Can't he walk?) The past tense is could. 1. Can is used to describe the ability to do something. I can swim very well. Can he speak English fluently? - No, he can't. We cannot sing at all! 2. It expresses the possibility to do something. We can go to the seaside at last.
Think about these situations and create a sentence using modals. 1. We are going to Paris for a weekend. (Make suggestions about things to do) 2. We start school in September. (Talk about necessity) 3. Margaret is a very talented sportswoman. (Talk about ability) 4. You have just won the lottery! (Talk about possibility) 5.
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Modal verbs(modals) are verbs that add the meaning of logical possibility, ability, necessity, and permission to verbs, which have a degree of strength from stronger to weaker. Modals come before infinitive verbs and the “to” is removed.
This handout shows how modals in academic writing can change a sentence’s meaning into a prediction, suggestion, or a question. Modals can also serve a social function to show uncertainty or politeness. They are especially common in discussion sections of research papers.
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Used with the base form of the verb, modals create verbal phrases. Modals do not change form. Use “not” to make modal verbs negative. Don’t use double modals. Modals lack past tense forms, except could and would which serve as the past of can and will. present ability – I can ride a bike.