{"id":3707,"date":"2022-05-21T17:16:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T17:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdr.foobrdigital.com\/?p=3707"},"modified":"2022-05-21T17:16:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T17:16:09","slug":"modal-auxiliaries-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/21\/modal-auxiliaries-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Modal Auxiliaries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Modal verbs<\/strong>&nbsp;are a kind of auxiliary verb. They facilitate the main verb for suggesting potential, expectation, permission, ability, possibility, and obligation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When used with the main verb, modal verbs do not end with &#8211;<em>s<\/em>&nbsp;for the third-person singular.&nbsp; Modal auxiliary verbs never change form, but they have a different form for past tense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The modal auxiliaries include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Present Tense<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Past Tense<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Will<\/strong><strong>Can<\/strong><strong>Must&nbsp;<\/strong>(have to)<strong>May<\/strong><strong>Should&nbsp;<\/strong>(ought to) (had better)<\/td><td><strong>Would&nbsp;<\/strong>(used to)<strong>Could<\/strong>(Had to)<strong>Might<\/strong><strong>Should&nbsp;<\/strong>(ought to)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>NB: The words in parentheses ( ) are semi-modals. They have the same meaning, but they are different grammatically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modal verbs&nbsp;are a kind of auxiliary verb. They facilitate the main verb for suggesting potential, expectation, permission, ability, possibility, and obligation. When used with the main verb, modal verbs do not end with &#8211;s&nbsp;for the third-person singular.&nbsp; Modal auxiliary verbs never change form, but they have a different form for past tense. The modal auxiliaries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mudassirbackup.infinitycodestudio.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}