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Our Living Language In many Southern U.S. varieties of English, might can be paired with other auxiliary verbs such as could, as in We might could park over there. Words like might and could are known as modals, since they express certain “moods” (for example, I might go indicates an uncertain...

Paco: I'm sorry if I mistook your message. Many of people here (including me) are still beginners of English learning. So it is nice if you write in a way everybody can't misunderstand you. One reason why we ESL feel auxiliary/modals difficult to learn is their usage has been rapidly...

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Tony Mountifield (Email Removed) writes: Right. English modal auxiliaries, however, unlike German ones, are defective verbs and don't have any inflected forms, which includes infinitives (the infinitive inflection is -0 -- 'zero'), and therefore must always be the first auxiliary in...