Modal (definition)

Modals are a type of auxiliary that expresses the Mood (definition) of a sentence, such as notions of obligation, likelihood or necessity. In English, modal auxiliaries include must, may, might, can, could, shall, should, will, and ought.

See Also

• Auxiliary (definition)
• Mood (definition)

External Links

• http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsMoodAndModality.htm

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• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_verb

References

• Crystal, David (1999) The Penguin Dictionary of Language. London: Penguin.