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	Modal verb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The use of auxiliary verbs to express modality is characteristic of Germanic languages.
		Modal verbs are preterite-present verbs, which means that their present tense has the form of a vocalic preterite.
		Modal verbs are called defective verbs because of their incomplete conjugation: they have a narrower range of functions than ordinary verbs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Modal_auxiliary_verb (557 words)

	auxiliary verb: Definition and Much More from Answers.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The auxiliary verb be is used with a past participle to form the passive voice; for example, the clause "the door was opened" implies that someone (or something) opened it, without stating who (or what) it was.
		The auxiliary verb be is used with a present participle to form the progressive aspect; for example, the sentence "I am riding my bicycle" describes what the speaker is doing at the very moment of utterance, while the sentence "I ride my bicycle" is a temporally broader statement.
		The auxiliary verb have is used with a past participle to form the perfect aspect; for example, the sentence "Peter has fallen in love" differs from "Peter fell in love" in that the former implies some connection to the present — likely that Peter is still in love — while the latter does not.
	www.answers.com.cob-web.org:8888 /topic/auxiliary-verb (1219 words)

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		Kannada has a number of modal auxiliary verbs that are attached to the -al form of the infinitive (see 3.2) to give such notions as `may, might, can, must, should, ought, could' and their negatives.
		However, it can occur with other auxiliary(aspectual and modal) verbs, especially with iru 'be' and aagu `become'; and these verbs, or the verbs to which they are attached in the verb phrase, mad be marked for or indicate tense.
		When the modal aar with PNG markers is attached to the verbal infinitive, the meaning is `cannot, may not', both in the sense of lack of ability and that of potential nonoccurrence.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~haroldfs/dravling/modals/KannadaModals.doc (1555 words)

	Verbs: Be, Auxiliaries, and Modals
		The verb be has eight forms, with am and are as present tense forms along with is, and both was and were as past tense forms.
		Verb forms such as the -ing form and the past participle are not complete because they do not show tense.
		Auxiliary verbs and modal auxiliary verbs can be used in combination.
	college.hmco.com /english/raimes/digitalkeys/keyshtml/verbs_be.htm (337 words)

	LILT:Modal auxiliary verb
		Modals tend generally to express possibility and obligation, but the nuances are subtle, e.g.
		The meanings expressed by some modal auxiliary verbs are similar to those expressed by adverbs such as ‘maybe’, ‘certainly’ ‘possibly’ and so on.
		Sometimes both modal auxiliary verb and an appropriate adverb are used together in a sentence, e.g.
	www2.arts.gla.ac.uk /SESLL/EngLang/LILT/modauxvb.htm (189 words)

	Modals and Verb Tenses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As a rule, native speakers tend to reduce modals in speech from their full forms to their shortened or contracted forms <'ll, 'd, gonna, hafta>, as they do all auxiliary verb forms.
		Modals of probability, also called modals of inference, are frequent in academic written English.
		Also, passive voice verb forms are quite common in scientific and technical writing and in news reporting, as are modals in combination with passive forms.
	www.spcollege.edu /tsc/esl/modalsandverbs.htm (421 words)

	Verbs and Verbals
		Verbs that are intransitive do not require objects: "The building collapsed." In English, you cannot tell the difference between a transitive and intransitive verb by its form; you have to see how the verb is functioning within the sentence.
		Verbs can be combined with different prepositions and other words, sometimes with dizzying effect: stand out, stand up, stand in, stand off, stand by, stand fast, stand pat, stand down, stand against, stand for.
		These verb tenses don't have to be identical as long as they reflect, logically, shifts in time and meaning: "My brother had graduated before I started college." "My brother will have graduated before I start." Click HERE for a chart describing various time relationships and how those relationships determine the appropriate sequence of verb tenses.
	grammar.ccc.commnet.edu /grammar/verbs.htm (3203 words)

	Types of verb
		Verbs need not be single words and there are a number of word groups that can be treated as single verbs, such as 'to put up with', 'to take off', 'to get by' and so on.
		Modal verbs are auxiliary verbs that add 'mood', most commonly imperative and probability.
		Continuous forms of the verb typically use the -ing ending to show continuity, with the tense being shown with the verb to be.
	changingminds.org /techniques/language/speech_parts/verb_types.htm (499 words)

	GrammarBooks - Writing Units
		The tenses of passive verbs are formed using the appropriate tenses of the verb ‘be’ (listed in the chart below) and the past participle of the main verb.
		Modal auxiliaries are followed by the present tense of the main verb.
		Modals are used in the base form (present tense) with the base form of the main verb – a final ‘s’ is never added to either the modal or the main verb as it would be in the present tense
	www.kb2020.com /mcs/LRM.aspx?id=39 (1528 words)

	English verb system (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		What makes things more complicated is that most English verb tenses are formed by the use of what is usually called an "auxiliary" verb: a verb which helps the main verb to express a meaning.
		Modal auxiliary verbs have no meaning of their own and must always be used with a main verb.
		The auxiliary verb BE is followed either by the -ed form or by the -ing form.
	www.ssdd.uce.ac.uk /learner/grammar/verbsyst.htm (222 words)

	Modal auxiliary verbs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		They are verbs which 'help' other verbs to express a meaning: it is important to realise that "modal verbs" have no meaning by themselves.
		A modal verb such as would has several varying functions; it can be used, for example, to help verbs express ideas about the past, the present and the future.
		Modal verbs are NEVER followed by to, with the exception of ought to.
	www.ssdd.uce.ac.uk /learner/grammar/modals.htm (1151 words)

	The verb expansion rule provides a formula that covers every predicate verb possibility in the English language
		To add a modal auxiliary to the verb, indicate present or past tense, write the base (present) modal form and follow it with the base form of the main verb.
		Because adding the auxiliary verb have to the main verb always requires adding the -en ending to the main verb, the + - en is included inside the parentheses with have.
		Because adding the auxiliary verb be to the main verb always requires adding the -ing ending to the main verb, the + - ing is included inside the parentheses with be.
	wwwnew.towson.edu /ows/moduleVerbExpan.htm (988 words)

	LILT:Modal auxiliary verb (German)
		The modal verbs in German are: können (can, to be able to), müssen (must, to have to), wollen (will, to want to), sollen (should, am to, ought to, to be supposed to), dürfen (may, to be allowed to), mögen (to like, to like to).
		1. These six verbs can be conjugated in relation to the present, the past and the future and they share a common pattern of conjugation, which is different from that followed by most verbs.
		This second verb is always in the infinitive form and is placed at the end of the clause or sentence, e.g.
	www.arts.gla.ac.uk /SESLL/EngLang/LILT/modauxger.htm (211 words)

	Basic Verb Classes (222)
		Auxiliary verbs are divided into modal and non-modal.
		Non-modal auxiliary verbs are used in certain grammatical constructions to mark tense, aspect, the perfect, or voice.
		Second, verbs are classified according to the complements they take or do not take.
	www.sfu.ca /~dearmond/222/222.basic.verb.htm (397 words)

	English modal auxiliary verb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the English language, a modal auxiliary verb is an auxiliary verb (or helping verb) that can modify the grammatical mood (or mode) of a verb.
		The key way to identify a modal auxiliary is by its defectiveness; the modal auxiliaries do not have participles or infinitives.
		The most common use of the auxiliary will (or its contracted form 'll) is actually not modal, but temporal: it is used to indicate that an event takes place in the future, relative to the time the statement is made.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/English_modal_auxiliary_verb (1279 words)

	About tenses in English - Englishpage.com Forums
		English also has a set of "modal auxiliary verbs" and "modal-like verbs" that are combined with other verbs to give a number of shadings to the basic meaning; they show features like probability, obligation, etc. The use of these modal verbs is not generally called a distinct tense.
		The word should is a modal auxiliary verb, and like other modal auxiliaries, it is used with an infinitive (without the particle to).
		They are still modal auxiliary verbs used with either the ordinary or perfect infinitive.
	www.englishpage.com /forums/showthread.php?t=4175 (780 words)

	Modals Ýn English
		Modal Verbs are special verbs which behave very differently from normal verbs.
		Modal Verbs do not take "-s" in the third person.
		Many Modal Verbs cannot be used in the past tenses or the future tenses.
	www.ingilizceci.net /TenseExpl/modals.htm (532 words)

	Modality
		The expression of the speaker's opinions about present likelihood or about obligation: (a) (narrowly) by means of a modal auxiliary verb; (b) (more widely) using any of the linguistic means available.
		If a modal auxiliary is followed by a progressive/perfective verb phrase, the modal is usually interpreted as epistemic.
		Modal disjuncts: She is probably / certainly in the library.
	folk.uio.no /hhasselg/grammar/Week9_ch7b.htm (767 words)

	answers
		This is a verb but not an auxiliary verb.
		This verb is not part of a verb chain.
		You might also say that the adverb modifies the verb chain containing this verb, or even the clause or sentence containing it, but the main point is that this verb's meaning is affected by the adverb.
	www.phon.ucl.ac.uk /home/dick/tta/wc/wca1.htm (656 words)

	Verb forms and finiteness in English
		For all verbs, the -ing form is predictable from the bare form, being derived from it by the affixation of -ing (play-ing, see-ing, hav-ing, be-ing).
		Rather, nonfinite verbs must ordinarily combine with a modal, an auxiliary verb, or the infinitival particle to.
		A verb's -s form and past tense form are always finite, and the two participles (the -ing and -en forms) are always nonfinite.
	www.ling.upenn.edu /~beatrice/syntax-textbook/box-verbs.html (495 words)

	English Grammar: Modals - Could (EnglishClub.com)
		Could is an auxiliary verb, a modal auxiliary verb.
		The main verb is always the bare infinitive (infinitive without "to").
		The main verb is always the bare infinitive.
	www.englishclub.com /grammar/verbs-modals_can_2.htm (149 words)

	Tense and related topics
		Both of them use auxiliaries, and the noun form is arguably a single word, whereas the verb form is clearly a multi-word phrase.
		English verbs are notoriously simple in terms of their inflection, but getting all the verb phrases right is a nightmare.
		The rule is that the FORM of the next verb (Infinitive, Past or Present Participle, inflected form, etc.) is determined by the preceding verb, and the first verb is inflected for tense (past or present), and person and number subject agreement in the present (and in the past for "be").
	www-personal.umich.edu /~jlawler/aue/tense.html (2323 words)

	Auxiliary verb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In linguistics, an auxiliary (also called helping verb, auxiliary verb, or verbal auxiliary) is a verb functioning to give further semantic or syntactic information about the main or full verb following it.
		There are nine modal verbs: can/could, may/might, shall/should, will/would and must.
		Because, aside from the verbs to be and to have, only auxiliaries can be inverted to form questions and only auxiliaries can take negation directly, a dummy auxiliary do is used for questions and negatives when only a full verb exists in the positive statement (i.e.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Auxiliary_verb (1052 words)

	E N G L I S H مخبر البيان الوطني
		A verb that is used with a main verb.
		A group of words containing a subject and its verb (for example: It was late when he arrived).
		A group of words not containing a subject and its verb (eg on the table, the girl in a red dress).
	bayan.50webs.com /english/grammar/grammar_terms.htm (545 words)

	Verbs: Conditional Sentences, Wishes, Requests, Demands, and Recommendations
		Use the present tense in the dependent clause and will (or another modal auxiliary) plus the base form of the verb in the independent clause to express future time.
		With speculative conditions about the present and future using the verb be, were is used in place of was in the dependent if clause.
		In these cases the verb in the dependent clause is the base form, regardless of the person and number of the subject.
	college.hmco.com /english/raimes/digitalkeys/keyshtml/verbs_co.htm (791 words)

	"It's Sleepytime, Nighty Night, Sis" Copyright 2004 Sally Jennings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Verb forms of “to sleep” in the story above are all in the Active Voice (it is not possible to use "to sleep" as a passive verb).
		The important part is to memorize the form of the verb phrase, and use it correctly.
		Note that the verb "sleep" does also have another form "asleep" which may be combined with the verb "to be," as in "he is asleep," and so on.
	www.speak-read-write.com /sleepytime.html (780 words)

	1.3 - Auxiliary Verbs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the section Verb Tenses and Forms, you can see how auxiliary or helping verbs determine the tense of verb forms and how the verb, as a whole, reveals the time or relative time of the action.
		Auxiliary verbs also work with verbs to show mood (indicative, imperative, or subjunctive) and to show voice (active or passive).
		Nine modal auxiliaries or "modals" are available: must, might, may, shall, should, can, could, will, and would.
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/eduweb/grammar/course/speech/1_3d.htm (323 words)

	IHGG: Auxiliary And Modal Verbs
		The Prädikat (predicate) of a sentence is a verb or verb structure.
		There are Hilfs- und Modalverben (auxiliary verbs and modal verbs), and regelmäßige und unregelmäßige Verben (regular verbs and irregular verbs), the latter two being discussed on another page.
		Because the inflection of the auxiliary verbs sein and werden is tabulated elsewhere and easy to memorize, we show mostly just the 1.Person Singular in the following table.
	www.travlang.com /languages/german/ihgg/verbinfl.html (1746 words)

	ENGLISH VERB TENSES
		The verb tense is also affected by the meaning of individual verbs (lexical aspect), by time expressions, and psychological factors, but the basic idea is as described above.
		For "regular" verbs, the past and past participle forms are the same, and are formed by adding "ed" to the simple form.
		Simple negatives and questions and all passive, progressive, and perfect verb phrases are formed by combining one of the following three auxiliary verbs or a modal auxiliary verb with either a simple verb form, a present participle, or a past participle.
	www.iei.uiuc.edu /structure/structure1/tenses.html (424 words)

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