modal auxiliary

This group is fairly small and includes the modal auxiliaries.

The modal auxiliary in both trees is the root of the entire sentence.

The following table lists the modal auxiliary verbs of standard English.

The use of dare as a modal auxiliary follows the same pattern as need.

In may's case, the big function of that modal auxiliary is to describe the degree of likelihood.

Some modal auxiliaries have a past subjunctive form.

Used with modal auxiliaries, Dutch perfect participles are placed at the end of a phrase.

There are various modal auxiliary verbs.

The modal auxiliaries cemented their distinctive syntactical characteristics during the Early Modern period.

A modal auxiliary verb gives more information about the function of the main verb that it governs.

Though these verbs were not originally defective, in most varieties of English today, they occur only in a modal auxiliary sense.

Modal verbs - English has several modal auxiliary verbs, which each have a number of uses.

The simple forms, the first part of the non-modal compound form, and possibly the modal auxiliaries, are usually conjugated for person and/or number.

In the case of modal auxiliaries Standard English is restricted to a single modal per verb phrase.

As in English, the subjunctive mood in Dutch has gradually been replaced by modal auxiliary verbs.

For details about the verbs classed as modal auxiliaries, see English modal verbs.

The verb phrase consists of a tense auxiliary followed by a modal auxiliary and the main verb.

Dare also lost the syntactical characteristics of a modal auxiliary, evolving a new past form (dared) distinct from the modal durst.

"From modal auxiliary to lexical verb: The curious case of Pennsylvania German wotte".

One can note further in this area that English modal auxiliaries are quite unlike modal verbs in closely related languages.

In many cases, an auxiliary verb is used, as in English, where futurity is often indicated by the modal auxiliary will (or shall).

Thus, as with creoles, there is no real distinction between modal auxiliaries and lexically modal main verbs that are followed by another main verb.

Here, on the other hand, no place in time with its conditions governing the potential actualization is represented because the infinitive is not dependent on a modal auxiliary.

The invariance of the modal auxiliaries to person, number, and tense makes them analogous to modal auxiliaries in English.

"When we say I daresay rather than I dare to say, we are using the syntax of the preterito-present (or modal auxiliary if you prefer).