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    Modal Verbs: General Points: Modal Verbs Are Auxiliary Verbs (They Are Used With Other Main Verbs) - Modal Verbs Are

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    Modal verbs are used with other main verbs and include can, could, will, would, may, might, should and must. They are followed by an infinitive without "to" and do not have third person -s or form tenses with -ing or -ed. Questions with modal verbs use inversion and negatives are formed by placing "not" after the modal verb. Modal verbs can also be used with the perfect infinitive to talk about past possibilities, certainties, and alternatives.

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    Modal verbs are used with other main verbs and include can, could, will, would, may, might, should and must. They are followed by an infinitive without "to" and do not have third person -s or form tenses with -ing or -ed. Questions with modal verbs use inversion and negatives are formed by placing "not" after the modal verb. Modal verbs can also be used with the perfect infinitive to talk about past possibilities, certainties, and alternatives.

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    Modal verbs are used with other main verbs and include can, could, will, would, may, might, should and must. They are followed by an infinitive without "to" and do not have third person -s or form tenses with -ing or -ed. Questions with modal verbs use inversion and negatives are formed by placing "not" after the modal verb. Modal verbs can also be used with the perfect infinitive to talk about past possibilities, certainties, and alternatives.

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    Modal verbs: general points

    • Modal verbs are auxiliary verbs (they are used with other main verbs).

    • Modal verbs are: can, could, will, would, may, might, should and must.

    • Two modal verbs cannot be together. He can will meet you tomorrow.

    • Modal verbs are followed by infinitive without to. He must to meet you tomorrow.

    • Modal verbs do not have the third person -s. He cans meet you tomorrow.

    • Modal verbs do not form tenses with -ing, -ed, ... He is musting to study..

    • Modal verbs use inversion in questions. Do you can meet me tomorrow ?

    • Negatives are made by putting NOT after the modal. I can't (cannot)
    ABILITY ADVICE, NECESSITY POSSIBILITY AND
    AND OBLIGATION CERTAINTY

    Can, Could, Must, Have to, Need, Should, May, Might, Can,
    Be able to Ought to Could, Must.

    MUST.
    MAY, MAY NOT, MIGHT,
    CAN. (Or Have to) to talk about obligation.
    MIGHT NOT and COULD.
    To talk about ability in When something is
    the present. MUSTN'T.
    possible. MUST.
    To talk about prohibition.
    When we are certain
    COULD NEED. (Negative and interrogative).
    that something is true.
    To talk about ability in NEED TO (Affirmative)
    CAN'T.
    the past. To express necessity.
    When we are certain
    NEEDN'T.
    that something is impossible.
    BE ABLE TO (Or Don't Have to) when there is
    To talk about ability in no obligation.
    the rest of tenses. SHOULD, OUGHT TO and
    SHOULDN'T.
    To give advice and
    recommendations.
    Modals + perfect infinitives

    • We use some modal verbs with HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE to talk about past events.
    • MUST HAVE + past participle . To express certainty or to make a logical deduction
    about the past.
    • CAN'T HAVE + past participle. To express an impossibility in the past.
    • MIGHT / MAY / COULD HAVE + past participle. To express a possibility in the past.
    • COULD HAVE + past participle. To suggest an alternative past action , even though it is
    now too late.
    • SHOULD HAVE + past participle. When we wish something had happened in the past
    (but it didn't)
    • SHOULDN'T HAVE + past participle. When we wish something had not happened in
    the past ( but it did)

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