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Modals

Modals are verbs that express manner or mode when used with other verbs. The document lists and defines common English modals - shall, should, will, would, can, could, may, might, must, dare, need, and ought to. Each modal is explained through examples showing how it is used to indicate areas such as: future time, duty, permission, willingness, necessity, uncertainty, obligation, courage, and more.

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Modals

Modals are verbs that express manner or mode when used with other verbs. The document lists and defines common English modals - shall, should, will, would, can, could, may, might, must, dare, need, and ought to. Each modal is explained through examples showing how it is used to indicate areas such as: future time, duty, permission, willingness, necessity, uncertainty, obligation, courage, and more.

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Modals

Modals are those which together with the

main verbs express the modes or manners

of the action denoted by the verbs.


List of modals

will, shall, would, should, can, could,

may, might, must, dare, need,

ought to, used to.


SHALL
Shall is used in first person to express pure future
Shall is used in 2nd &3rd person also.

Shall

Command promise threat will of person

1. You shall not go out.


2. You shall have a holiday tomorrow.
3. He shall be punished.
4. Shall I open the door.
SHOULD
Should is the past tense of shall.

Should

duty supposition advice purpose

1. You should help the poor


2. If it should rain, we shall not go to Delhi
3. You should see a doctor
4. I ran fast lest i should miss the train
WILL
Will is used in second & third person to express pure future.
It is also used in first person.
Will

determination
promise
threat
wish
request
willingness
characteristic habit
1. I will die for my country.
2. I will lend you money.
3. I will punish you if you fall in the examination.
4. I will come to see you.
5. Will you sing a song for me?
6. I will help you.
7. He will sit for hours listening to the music.
WOULD
Would is the past tense of will.
Would

polite request
wish
determination
past habit
willingness
uncertainly
1. Would you please open the door.
2. Would that I were rich.
3. He would rather die than beg.
4. He would talk upon any subject for hours.
5. She said that she would carry my books.
6. Had he worked hard , he would have passed.
CAN

Ability Permission Possibility

1. I can speak three languages.


2. You can go now.
3. Everyone can make mistakes.
COULD

Ability in the past Polite request Permission Possibility

1. I could speak languages when I was three years


old.
2. Could you pass me the salt.
3. Could I use your telephone?
4. She wondered whenever it could be true .
MAY

Permission Possibility Wish Purpose Doubt

1. May I come in?


2. It may rain today.
3. May you live long!
4. We eat so that we may live.
5. It may not be true.
MIGHT

Permission Possibility Purpose Reproach

1. The student asked the Principal if he might go home.


2. He might come today.
3. He worked hard that he might become rich.
4. He might have told me the truth.
MUST

Advice Moral obligation fixed determination

Strong likelihood Inevitability

1. You must pay your taxes in time.


2. We must obey the laws of the land.
3. I must have my way in this matter.
4. He is not in his office. He must have gone on tour.
5. We all must die.
OUGHT TO

Moral obligation Duty

1. We ought to work hard.


2. You ought to help your parents.
DARE

To have courage

1. He dare not speak to me.


2. How dare you oppose me?
NEED

1. You need not go there.

2. Your shirt is dirty. It needs washing.


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