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Modal Verbs

The document provides an overview of verbs, including their classifications and functions, with a focus on modal verbs and their uses in expressing ability, permission, and obligation. It explains how modal verbs differ from regular verbs and emphasizes the importance of using the base form of verbs that follow modals. Additionally, it includes examples and notes on the correct usage of various modal verbs.

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Modal Verbs

The document provides an overview of verbs, including their classifications and functions, with a focus on modal verbs and their uses in expressing ability, permission, and obligation. It explains how modal verbs differ from regular verbs and emphasizes the importance of using the base form of verbs that follow modals. Additionally, it includes examples and notes on the correct usage of various modal verbs.

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PRE-ASSESSMENT

VERBS
• Verbs are the part of speech that
expresses action, condition, or state of
being. They can be classified according
to kind (i.e., transitive or intransitive,
linking, auxiliary/helping) or property
(i.e., number, person, voice, tense,
STUDY THE SENTENCES BELOW AND
NOTICE THE ITALICIZED WORDS.

1. The Grade 8 learners study about verbs.


2. They learn the verbs’ functions in
sentences.
3. All of them enjoy writing sentences and
paragraphs using verbs.
LET’S STUDY THE
ILLUSTRATION BELOW AND
ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
THAT FOLLOW.
Where
ill eat would
i w his you like
all t to eat
dinner?

might could
be in wear it I can
without wash
dange problem dish
r s?! es
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

1. What solutions are shown in the


illustration?
2. Do you think the character will be
able to do all the actions presented in
the illustration? Why do you think so?
MODAL VERBS
• Or simply modals, are a special type of
auxiliary/helping verb that change or complete the
meaning of the main verb. They express different
ideas, such as certainty, ability, permission,
probability, necessity, request, or desire.
• They are also used to indicate the level of formality in
a conversation.
COMMONLY USED MODAL VERBS
• Can • Should,
• Could • Will
• May • Would
• Might • Must
• Shall • ought to
TAKE NOTE!
• When using modal verbs in sentences, any verb
that follows the modal should be in the base form.
This is so because modals do not change form to
show tense or take an “-s” ending. Therefore, it is
incorrect to say, “can sings” or “cans sings.”
• All modal verbs can be used in the present (i.e.,
can, may, shall, will, must, ought to), but only
could, would, should, and might can be used in the
past.
LET US LOOK AT THE FUNCTIONS OF
THE FOLLOWING MODAL VERBS
CAN
• usually expresses potential or ability. It is also used
to indicate permission.
For example:
Ramon can bake a cake. (ability)
Can you break this door? (ability)
The doctor said, “You can play basketball again.”
(permission)
COULD
• is used as the past tense of can in indirect speech. It is used
to indicate ability in the past. Could is also used to suggest a
weak possibility in the future.
For example:
Rob said that he could solve the problem. (ability in
indirect speech)
He could drive a car when he was young. (ability in the
past)
She could leave on Friday. (weak possibility)
COULD
• is used as the past tense of can in indirect speech. It is used
to indicate ability in the past. Could is also used to suggest a
weak possibility in the future.
For example:
Rob said that he could solve the problem. (ability in
indirect speech)
He could drive a car when he was young. (ability in the
past)
She could leave on Friday. (weak possibility)
MAY
• is usually used when we ask for permission. It is also
used to express a wish or to indicate a strong possibility.
For example:
May I borrow your copy of Julius Caesar? (permission)
May you always prosper! (wish)
There may be a strike today. Pedicabs are nowhere to
be seen.
(strong possibility)
SHALL/SHOULD
• is used in the second and third person to express a
promise or even a threat. Should is also used to
seek advice.
For example:
You should receive your wages tomorrow.
(promise)
He shall not remain the captain anymore.
(threat)
WILL
• is used in the second and third person to
express simple future time. It is also used in
the first person to express willingness,
determination, promise, habit, intention or
even a threat.
FOR EXAMPLES
He will come here tomorrow. (simple future time)
I will do the work. (willingness)
I will achieve my goal. (determination)
We will help you. (promise)
He will watch TV for hours. (habit)
I will go to meet her today. (intention)
We will sue him. (threat)
NOTE
The expression “will you…?”
suggests an invitation.
For example:
Will you have dinner with us?
WOULD
• is used to make polite requests.
For example:
Would you like to have a cup of tea? (polite
request)
MUST
• expresses necessity or obligation. It can also
express a fixed determination.
For example:
We must reach on time. (necessity)
The team must finish the tasks assigned to
them. (obligation)
I must be allowed to express my wish. (fixed
OUGHT TO
• expresses moral obligation and desirability.
For example:
We ought to put in our best effort to help
the government. (moral obligation)
We ought to win. (desirability)
I ought to apologize to him. (desirability)
MODAL AUXILIARY VERBS
• are also used to distinguish realistic or possible conditions from the
unrealistic, imaginary, or impossible. In this case, modals are used
with conditional clauses, which are introduced by “if” or “unless”
and express conditions of fact, prediction, or speculation.
• All modal auxiliary verbs may be used to express realistic or
possible conditions. To express unrealistic or imaginary situations or
conditions contrary to fact in the present, use would, could, should,
or might. To express conditions in the past that did not occur,
special modal forms are used: would/could/should/might have
plus the participle.

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