| Interestingly, the modal verb bì appears below the scope of negation and thus patterns with circumstantial modals syntactically. |
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| In Section 3.1, we recalled the syntax of epistemic and deontic modals, as well as the syntax of modals when they were used lexically. |
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| The data obtained indicated that they mostly gave WCF on errors attributed to tenses, voice, modals, and definite and indefinite articles. |
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| These preferences often serve to clarify, but a less deft handling leads to tercets like the following, their force buried under prepositions, pronouns and modals. |
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| The other students, English majors all, seemed terrified by the prospect of a semester of moods and modals, subordinate clauses and predicate adjectives. |
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| These complements contain modals and therefore can't be infinitives. |
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| Many English modals have cognates in other Germanic languages, albeit with different meanings in some cases. |
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| In their uses as modals they govern a bare infinitive, and are usually restricted to questions and negative sentences. |
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| To put double modals in past tense, only the first modal is changed as in I could ought to. |
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| For this reason the expression had better, considered as a kind of compound verb, is sometimes classed along with the modals or as a semimodal. |
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| Transportation modals may not increase shipping volumes, but rather change the way products are delivered. |
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| A further problem with is that dynamic modals are iterable, cf. |
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| Some verbs ceased to function as modals during the Early Modern period. |
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| Modal screen elements are subtrees which, when activated, disable all elements external to them. Examples of modals are yes-no message boxes and the application itself. |
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| Epistemic usages of modals tend to develop from deontic usages. |
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| A greater variety of double modals appears in some regional dialects. |
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| In formal standard English usage, more than one modal verb is not used consecutively, as modals are followed by an infinitive, which they themselves lack. |
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| Double modals also occur in the closely related Germanic language Scots. |
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| Modals are special verbs which behave very irregularly in English. |
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