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modal verb - an auxiliary verb (such as `can' or `will') that is used to express modality

modal, modal auxiliary, modal auxiliary verb

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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auxiliary verb Be go have IF modal modal auxiliary modal auxiliary verb modality mode mood optative optative mood Sanskrit Sanskritic language			Expressing an indirect statement in the predicate In the predicate an indirect statement is expressed by moodal means and infinite verb forms and modal verbs functioning as predicates (see Table 3). Indirectal in literary Estonian by Sepper, Maria-Maren / Trames Introduction The interaction of voice and modal verbs in Estonian is of general interest because of the way that it confirms the impersonal nature of the basic voice opposition in Estonian and clarifies the constraints on impersonalization. Voice and modal verbs in Estonian/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] by Torn-Leesik, Reeli / Linguistica Uralica 9) Another formal parallelism is that apart from common verbs the prefix appears in preterite participles of anomalous and modal verbs, which can be illustrated with Dutch gekund, gehad, gemoeten, or geweest. The pre-verbal I- in early Middle English: an analysis of the formal ... by Mokrowiecki, Tomasz / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies			mocking mocking thrush Mocking wren mockingbird mockingly Mockingstock Mockish Mockle mockney mocktail mockumentary mockup Moco Moctezuma mod mod con mod cons mod. modacrylic modal modal auxiliary modal auxiliary verb modal logic modal value modal verb modal verbs modalism Modalist Modalistic Monarchianism modality Modally mode mode (identification, friend or foe) mode of transport model model car model railway Model T model theory modeled Modeler modeling Modeling plane Modeling wax Modelize modeller modelling modelling clay modem modem card modem session			modal class Modal Damping Ratio Modal dispersion Modal dispersion Modal dispersion Modal dispersion Modal dispersion Modal distortion Modal Emission Model Modal Haplotype Modal Haplotype Modal Haplotype Modal Identification Experiment Modal Interval Analysis Modal Interval Simulator modal logic modal logic modal logic Modal logic S5 Modal logic S5 Modal Method by Fourier Expansion Modal music modal noise modal number Modal Positive Position Feedback Modal rhythm Modal Transmission-Line modal value Modal verb Modal verb modal verbs Modale Modale Modalen Modalen Modalert Modali Jewels Pvt. Ltd. Modalism Modalism Modalism (Monarchianism) Modalism (Monarchianism) Modalisms Modalisms Modalist Modalist Modalistic Monarchianism Modalistic Monarchianism modalists Modalités d'Application du Règlement National d'Urbanisme modalities modalities modalities modality modality modality Modality Performed Procedure Step Modality Work List modally modally modals modals

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modal verb (redirected from modal verbs)

modal verb
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