1. Modals auxiliary verbs are a very complex area of English
grammar, so in this quick guide we will not be able to go into much detail, but
we will at least get an overall idea of what their function is in a sentence.
In an earlier section of this guide we looked at how the verb phrase can be
broken down into its constituent parts and we noted that one of these parts was
called amodal auxiliary verb. Just to remind you of the previous examples, a section
of the chart has been reproduced below
example :
He should be here by now.
I could swim quite well when I was younger.
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Complex Modal verbs are common auxiliary verbs in Germanic
languages including English that indicate modality. Modality is the grammaticalized
expression of the subjective attitudes and opinions of the speaker including
possibility, probability, necessity, obligation, permissibility, ability,
desire, and contingency.
example :
i can sepak english.
can i go to cinema?
Epistemic modality is a sub-type of linguistic modality that
deals with a speaker's evaluation/judgment of, degree of confidence in, or
belief of the knowledge upon which a proposition is based. In other words,
epistemic modality refers to the way speakers communicate their doubts,
certainties, and guesses—their "modes of knowing". More technically,
epistemic modality may be defined "...as (the linguistic expression of) an
evaluation of the chances that a certain hypothetical state of affairs under
consideration (or some aspect of it) will occur, is occurring, or has occurred
in a possible world which serves as the universe of interpretation for the
evaluation process
