modal

Examples

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• They come from the same parent modal family.

• I'm going to run a modal logic group during the summer.

  Blog text (27)

• Well, no, I mean modal logic is useful enough and possible, right?

• Identify the modal verb in the sentence.

• Modal distinctions follow some pattern, rule, or order that is the product of human intelligence.

  Academic text (1991)

• The exceptions are future tenses, which are formed with the modal verb 'will'.

  Blog text (31)

• After approximately five weeks of modal inquiry and storytelling, the students began writing their own individual fractured fairy tales.

  Academic text (2013)

• Modal is shorthand for modal auxiliary verb, i.e., 'can', 'could', 'will', 'would', etc.

  Blog text (31)

• In the sentence 'You must finish your homework', 'must' is the modal verb expressing necessity.

• Teachers often explain that modal verbs like 'may' and 'might' indicate possibility.

Compounds

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modal auxiliary

• Specialized

1 5.5

A helping verb like can that you use with another verb to show chance, need or time

M

modal verb

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1 3.0

A helping verb like can that shows ability, permission, need or possibility

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modal auxiliary verb

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4.3

A helper word used with verbs to show possibility or need, for example can and must

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modal logic

• Specialized

9.2

A type of reasoning that studies what must be true or may be true

M

modal notation

• Specialized

9.9

A way of writing music in the Middle Ages that shows rhythm patterns for several musical parts

M

modal value

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6.5

The number or item that appears most often in a set of data

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology