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Modal Verbs: might

Posted on July 24, 2023May 24, 2024 by deliatutorCategories - Auxiliary and modal verbs, grammar, parts of speech, verbsTags - auxiliary, clauses, continuous, indefinite, infinitive, might, modal, perfect, possibility, purpose, subordinate, tenses, uncertainty, verbs, with

Might with the indefinite infinitive is used to express possibility or uncertainty in the present or future.In the perfect infinitive form, might have is used to express possibility or uncertainty in the past

Modal Verbs: may

Posted on July 24, 2023May 24, 2024 by deliatutorCategories - Auxiliary and modal verbs, grammar, parts of speech, verbsTags - auxiliary, clauses, indefinite, infinitive, may, modal, perfect, permission, polite, possibility, purpose, request, subordinate, verbs

May is used with the indefinite infinitive to express permission, possibility or probability in the present.

It can also be used to make polite requests.

Auxiliary Verbs: should and would

Posted on July 23, 2023May 23, 2024 by deliatutorCategories - Auxiliary and modal verbs, grammar, parts of speech, verbsTags - action, advice, auxiliary, consequence, counterfactual, expectations, habit, hypothetical, invitations, modal, necessity, obligation, outcome, polite, probability, recommendation, repeated, request, should, verbs, would

Should and would are both auxiliary verbs used in English grammar to indicate different meaningsShould is used to indicate:

Advice or recommendation

Necessity or obligation

Expectation or probability

Would is used to indicate:

Past habits or repeated actions

Polite requests or invitations

Hypothetical situations

Modal Verbs: could

Posted on July 23, 2023May 23, 2024 by deliatutorCategories - Auxiliary and modal verbs, grammar, parts of speech, verbsTags - ability, auxiliary, can, conditional, could, hypothetical, inability, indefinite, indirect, infinitive, modal, past, perfect, polite, possibility, request, situations, speech, verbs, with

Could can be used with the indefinite infinitive to express past actions.

When using could in this way, it usually indicates ability or possibility in the past.

Modal Verbs: can

Posted on July 22, 2023May 23, 2024 by deliatutorCategories - Auxiliary and modal verbs, grammar, parts of speech, verbsTags - ability, auxiliary, can, future, indefinite, infinitive, modal, passive, perfect, permission, possibility, present, to be able to, verbs

Can is a modal verb that can be used to indicate ability, permission, or possibility.

Here’s how it can be used in different tenses and forms: present, future, indefinite passive, indefinite infinitive