In Numbers^x, Inflections^x, Modals^x

Milky wrote: <To my mind, the articles are the trickiest part of English grammar> And modals? They are similar to other Germanic languages in structure and as there are only two infinitives in English (and in Swedish, for that matter), the modals or defective auxiliaries are...

There are twenty-eight auxiliary forms in English. (F. R. Palmer: The English Verb ) BE: is, are, am, was, were, ( "nonfinite forms" be, being, been), HAVE: has, have, had, ( "nonfinite forms" have, having), DO: do, does, did, MODALS: will, would, shall, should, can, could, may, might,...