Modal Auxiliaries

Modal Auxiliaries

by Rizal Rulloh

​What are modal auxiliary?

​Modal auxiliary is well known as modal verbs, they are special verbs that we use in combination with another verb.

​There are ten modal auxiliaries

• ​will

• ​shall

• ​would

• ​should

• ​must

• ​ought to

• ​can

• ​could

• ​may

• ​might

​How to Make Sentences with Modal Auxiliaries

​I

​You

​We

​They

​He

​She

​It

​will

​shall

​would

should

​must

​ought to

​can

​could

​may

​might

go

​study

​wait

​leave

​listen

​read

​How to Make Negative Sentences, we add 'not"

​I

​You

​We

​They

​He

​She

​It

​will not / won't

​shall not / shan't

​would not / wouldn't

should not / shouldn't

​must not / mustn't

​ought not to / oughtn't to

​cannot / can't

​could not / couldn't

​may not

​might not / mightn't

go

​study

​wait

​leave

​listen

​read

​How to Make Question we invert the subject and the modal verb

go?

​study?

​wait?

​leave?

​listen?

​read?

​I

​You

​We

​They

​He

​She

​It

​will

​shall

​would

should

​must

​ought to

​can

​could

​may

​might

​Making Request

​In English there are several ways we can make requests and with different levels of formality:

​

​Informal

• ​Will you help me?

• ​Can you help me?

​Formal

• ​Would you help me?

• ​Could you help me?

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