Appendix:English modal verbs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly...

English auxiliary verbs are a small set of English verbs, which include the English modal auxiliary verbs and a few others.: 19 : 11–12  Although the...

or advice. Modal verbs generally accompany the base (infinitive) form of another verb having semantic content. In English, the modal verbs commonly used...

so as to express tense, aspect, modality, voice, emphasis, etc. Auxiliary verbs usually accompany an infinitive verb or a participle, which respectively...

regular forms in writing. For the verb be, modal verbs and other auxiliaries, see § Copular, auxiliary and defective verbs below. The form described in this...

with auxiliary verbs, such as was going and would have gone The uses considered include expression of tense (time reference), aspect, mood, modality and...

verbs (such as the modal auxiliaries) lack most inflection. Irregular verbs in Modern English include many of the most common verbs: the dozen most frequently...

up auxiliary verb or Appendix:English modal verbs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. This is a list of English auxiliary verbs, i.e. helping verbs, which...

the tree) The past participles of modal and auxiliary verbs have the same form as their infinitives. But if these verbs are used alone, without an infinitive...

not easy in English, and there is no clear boundary between the two nonfinite verb forms. Auxiliary verbs typically occur as finite verbs, but they also...

forms of verbs, ending in -ing, are always regular. In English, these are used as verbs, adjectives, and nouns.) In the case of modal verbs the present...

tendency for modal adverbs to follow auxiliary verbs but precede lexical verbs, as shown in (5–8) with the adverbs in bold and the verb underlined. That's...

order to distinguish phrasal verbs from verb phrases composed of a verb and a collocated preposition. Others include verbs with prepositions under the...

preterite-present verbs function as modal verbs (auxiliaries which are followed by a bare infinitive, without "to" in English, and which convey modality) and indeed...

characteristics of a modal auxiliary and evolved a new past form (dared), distinct from the modal durst. The perfect of the verbs had not yet been standardised...

the verb), conjugated compound verbs, and invariant auxiliaries. For English tam from the perspective of modality, see Palmer; and Nielsen for English tam...

formed around a verb in the present or preterite form. In clauses with auxiliary verbs, they are the finite verbs and the main verb is treated as a subordinate...

constructions, a modal verb or a certain type of auxiliary verb also may function as a finite verb. Modal verbs and auxiliary verbs mark the abovementioned...

Quintessential modal expressions include modal auxiliaries such as "could", "should", or "must"; modal adverbs such as "possibly" or "necessarily"; and modal adjectives...

This table explains the conjugation of auxiliary Catalan verbs. The past, also called preterite, is rarely used in the spoken and written language and...

like in the case of put.) Certain auxiliary verbs are modal verbs (such as can, must, etc., which defective verbs lacking an infinitive form or any truly...

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a limited number of verbs, or if it requires the specification of more than one principal part (as with the German strong verbs), views may differ as...

same modal verbs are also often used with present rather than future reference. For details of their meanings and usage, see English modal verbs. Questions...

the auxiliary would is replaced by should (similarly to the way will is replaced by shall). Also, would may be replaced by another appropriate modal: could...

have"). Most verbs use avoir as their auxiliary verb. The exceptions are all reflexive verbs and a number of verbs of motion or change of state, including...

is typical of verbs in virtually all languages, Spanish verbs express an action or a state of being of a given subject, and like verbs in most Indo-European...

21st; in British English its use also decreased, but later and not so drastically. The subjunctive is not generally used after verbs such as hope and...

the verb, whereas most modern European languages do so using appropriate auxiliary verbs in combination with past participles. Ancient Greek verbs had...

along with the modal verbs and the other auxiliaries, form a distinct class, sometimes called "special verbs" or simply "auxiliaries". These have different...