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    Modals are helping verbs that modify the meaning of the main verb. Modals are used in giving advice, requests, predictions, and prohibitions. Modals do not have different forms for things like past tense, third person singular, infinitives or -ing forms. They are placed before the base form of the main verb in a sentence and questions can be formed by placing the modal before the subject without using do/did.

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    Modals are helping verbs that modify the meaning of the main verb. Modals are used in giving advice, requests, predictions, and prohibitions. Modals do not have different forms for things like past tense, third person singular, infinitives or -ing forms. They are placed before the base form of the main verb in a sentence and questions can be formed by placing the modal before the subject without using do/did.

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    Modals are helping verbs that modify the meaning of the main verb. Modals are used in giving advice, requests, predictions, and prohibitions. Modals do not have different forms for things like past tense, third person singular, infinitives or -ing forms. They are placed before the base form of the main verb in a sentence and questions can be formed by placing the modal before the subject without using do/did.

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    Modals are helping verbs that modify the meaning of the main verb. Modals are used in giving advice, requests, predictions, and prohibitions. Modals do not have different forms for things like past tense, third person singular, infinitives or -ing forms. They are placed before the base form of the main verb in a sentence and questions can be formed by placing the modal before the subject without using do/did.

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    MODALS

    What we will learn today


    • Recognize what modals are

    • Identify the variety of uses of


    modals in expressing meaning

    • Use modals in writing


    What are modal verbs?
    - This are auxiliary or helping
    verbs which modify or change
    the meaning of the main verb.
    What are modal verbs?
    - This auxiliary or helping
    verbs are used together with
    base form of main verbs.
    Linking or Action or Helping Action or
    Helping Helping Linking
    am have shall taste
    is has will feel
    was had should smell
    were do would sound
    be does may look
    being did might appear
    been must become
    can seem
    could grow
    remain
    stay
    Modal verbs are used…
    • in giving advice or suggestions
    • in making requests
    • in giving predictions or prohibitions
    Some examples of modals
    Would
    Can
    Must
    Will
    May
    Shall Could

    Should Might
    Modal Verb Usage:
    Where are modals put in a sentence?

    I shall be leaving when everything is done.


    I shall be leaving
    Wherewhen everything
    sputin a is done.
    are modal
    sentence?

    Shall Be Leaving
    Based form verbs are used after modals

    will punish
    can swim
    I shall be leaving
    .
    Modal Verbs are special verbs
    which behave very differently from
    ordinary verbs.

    Here are some important differences:


    1. They have no -s in the third person
    singular (he, she, it).
    Example:

    She shoulds pass the entrance test before enrolment period. .

    Correct Sentence:
    She should pass the entrance test before enrolment period.
    2. Most modal verbs, except for ought, are
    followed by the verb without to.
    Example:
    Glenn should to build a new computer center.
    Correct Sentence:
    Glenn should build a new computer center.
    3. Modals have no infinitive or –ing form.
    Example:
    My parents can singing well.

    Correct Sentence:
    My parents can sing well.
    4. Questions can be made by placing the modal verb
    before the subject and without using do/did.

    Example:
    May I see what you’ve been playing on
    your phone?
    Let’s practice!
    Which sentence has a
    modal verb?
    Homework:
    Read “The Story of the
    Aged Mother.”
    https://americanliterature.com/author/matsuo-basho/short-story/the-aged-mother

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