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Vsuresh Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Modal adverb

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What is a modal adverb?
  

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org/wiki/Category:English_modal_adverbs Modal adverbs are used to express the speaker's view of the truth value of a proposition (a clause or sentence) with which it is associated. They can be positioned next to an adjective or adverb word or phrase and can be considered as modifying such word or phrase. Even when used in this way, there is a paraphrase in which they modify a clause or sentence.

  • org/wiki/Category:English_modal_adverbs Modal adverbs are used to express the speaker's view of the truth value of a proposition (a clause or sentence) with which it is associated.
  • They can be positioned next to an adjective or adverb word or phrase and can be considered as modifying such word or phrase.
  • Even when used in this way, there is a paraphrase in which they modify a clause or sentence.
  • Many of these also have some other sense, often one of manner.
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http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_modal_adverbs

Modal adverbs are used to express the speaker's view of the truth value of a proposition (a clause or sentence) with which it is associated. They ca
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This link should help you:

http://www.waylink-english.co.uk/?page=31320.

Excerpt:

Before we look at some of the possible meanings of modal auxiliary verbs we need to have some idea of what constitutes a modal in English and where they occur in a sentence. A few more examples shoul
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