Video Lesson - Introduction To Modal Verbs | Oxford Online English. 1. What are Modal Verbs? Modal verbs are verbs which are used to add meaning to another verb. They follow different grammar rules to regular verbs, and can often be used in many different ways. The basic modal verbs in English are: can, could, may, might, will, would, shall, should and must. There are other verbs which behave like modal verbs, although they do not have all the features of ‘full’ modal verbs.
Examples include: ought to, need and have to. 2. Modal verbs are different from normal verbs in several ways: i) Modal verbs can only be used with a verb in the infinitive form, without to: I couldn’t sleep last night.What should we do? If you want to use normal verbs with another verb, you need to add a preposition, or change the second verb in some other way: She decided to go anyway.
—> We need to add the preposition to to use the verbs together.I don’t mind doing the shopping. —> We need to change do to doing after mind. For example: Modal verbs don’t have these different forms. 3. 4.
CONECTORS. CONDITIONALS. Learn English - OTHER, ANOTHER, OTHERS, THE OTHER, OTHERWISE.