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...

possibility. 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...

Verbs constitute one of the main parts of speech (word classes) in the English language. Like other types of words in the language, English verbs are...

forms with auxiliary verbs, such as was going and would have gone They can be used to express tense (time reference), aspect, mood, modality and voice...

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...

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...

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 non-finite verb forms. Auxiliary verbs typically occur as finite verbs, but they also...

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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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

inability of intransitive verbs to assign Case. Since intransitive verbs do not have objects, they don't assign Case. If the verb can't assign Case, then...

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

typically considered within a class apart from modal verbs and defective verbs. In the following sentences, verbs are used without a direct object: "Rivers...

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...

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...

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...

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...