By Modal auxiliaries, Semantic meanings

That's because you are trying to imagine it as said by someone. we are only trying to find perceptual paraphrases to help us learn modal auxiliaries. Hmm. In that case, I find this difficult to accept as a paraphrase of 'you will go' : 1. Given my perception of the immediate situation, it is...

... thank you, milky! you're an English teacher, right ...? (I'm not good at English, and I always use these modal auxiliary verbs in my own way, as I like it ! I've got great help from your discussion.) You've asked: Umm ...on the speaker's intention, I'd say. And at the very least, this...

1. Given my perception of the immediate situation, it is inevitable that you will go. 2. You will go. Now I have a different problem, though. The first sentence now reads like a 'highly qualified' version of sentence two. If someone said it to me, I would interpret it as a curious mixture of...

In his chapter on modal auxiliaries in The English Verb, Michael Lewis lists what he thinks are the basic semantic meanings for each. I cite those meanings below and ask if you agree with them. Please remember, we are talking about the basic semantic meaning. In context, these auxiliaries take...