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modal verb

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Noun1.modal verb - an auxiliary verb (such as `can' or `will') that is used to express modality
auxiliary verb - a verb that combines with another verb in a verb phrase to help form tense, mood, voice, or condition of the verb it combines with


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Similarly, should may be either finite, as a modal verb equivalent to ought, or non-finite, as a subjunctive "periphrasis" (Anderson 2001b, 2004a)--see further [section][section] 2 and 3.
Through an interim step of epistemic modality the indicative imperfect form pidi 'had to' of the deontic modal verb pidama 'must, have to' has grammaticalised into a post-modal quotative auxiliary (Erelt 2001).
Erelt (2003 : 106) considers tulema less grammaticalized than the modal verb voima as it demonstrates special requirements on the noun and its own form.
 
 
 
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