Modals Auxiliary Verb

  

What Are Modal Verbs?

Auxiliaries, or modal verbs, express the speaker's mood (mode) or attitude. Modal verbs are used to express various types of sentences, such as a request, suggestion, advice, permission, duty, need, prayer, wish, promise, and many others.

What are the 24 modal auxiliary verbs?

24 Auxiliary Verbs List

Primary Auxiliary Verbs

Be Verb: is, am, are, was, were, been, being Have Verb: have, has, had, having Do Verb: do, does, did

Modal Auxiliary Verbs 

can, could, shall, should, will, would, may, might, must, dare, need, used to, ought to

What are the 13 modal auxiliary verbs?

Modals Auxiliary Verb include can, may, shall, must, ought to, used to, need, and dare. There are no 'forms or -ed participles in their language. Past forms for can, may, shall, will include could, might, should, and would, respectively, but past forms for must are not available.

Type of Modals

1. Main Modals (Basic Modal)

Can

Could

Will

Would

Shall 

Must

May 

Might 

Ought to

Could have

Would have

Should have

Must have

Might have

Has to

Have to 

Ought to have

2. Semi Modal

Dare

Need

Sentences Example

You play football.

You can play football. (Ability)

Modal Verbs come before Main verb