Hi everybody, I have a question.I have just watched a film and there was a sentence ı really didnt understand.. "you do not have to have killed him" as ı know,have to is one of modal verb but ı dont know this

Hi. Thank you. Let me change the sentence pattern of the sentence presented by anglista2008 to this. 1) They expelled me. I would not be in school next week. I take this use of the modal verb "would not" as the past of the modal

Would this use of the modal verb "would" be correct in a simple children's writing? ... He would go shopping. Yes. He would go shopping in the meaning He had the habit of going shopping is something a child might say or write

Hi. 1. Would this use of the modal verb "would" be correct in a simple children's writing? What this modal use denote? Does it denote what he or she usually does in a some prolonged time in the past like "He would play table

Dear. teachers. " I'm afraid I haven't much to offer you." I thought "have" in the above sentence as a general verb not a modal verb. so, I considered "I'm afraid I don't have much to

That's a good point. I also overlooked in my previous answer the fact that modal verbs may in any case disguise the structure of a genuine conditional sentence: 1. If he invited me, I couldn't go anyway = 2. If he were to invite

"EXCEPTION Conditional with Modal Verbs There are some special conditional forms for modal verbs in English: would + can = could would + shall = should would + may = might The words "can," "shall" and "may"

Other than conditionals, is would considered a past tense modal? "I know he would help me." What tense is the would? would is past in form ; it's historically the past of will . But it can be used in present-tense contexts, as

I believe I have asked a question along this line of question before but believe I haven't received a reply. These example sentences may be different to the ones in the other post. If you have some extra food, you should give it to this

* He treads like a conqueror! And well he may.* 'well' comes before 'he' in the above sentence. I think it's a inversion. but I don't understand the word order. because I think that verb or modal verb comes