In Present tenses^x, Modal verbs^x, Adverbs^x

Yipes! My mistake-- confused by my own language! I thought we were discussing present tenses, and I thought read was pronounced /ri/ in your question. OK, in addition to my previous post; I will start...

tense has no bearing on the semantics of modals I'm trying to analyze this sentence, especially in terms of its ramifications. Which of the following are consistent with that sentence? No modal verb expresses tense. No modal verb expresses a relationship in time. When determining the meaning of...