| 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. |
| The other students, English majors all, seemed terrified by the prospect of a semester of moods and modals, subordinate clauses and predicate adjectives. |
| Interestingly, the modal verb bì appears below the scope of negation and thus patterns with circumstantial modals syntactically. |
| These complements contain modals and therefore can't be infinitives. |
| 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. |
| In their uses as modals they govern a bare infinitive, and are usually restricted to questions and negative sentences. |
