Name: Modal Verbs and Semi Modal Verbs | Learn English Grammar Course
Uploaded: 2022-02-26T17:47:35.000Z
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In this video, I'm going to teach you the basics about modal and semi-modal verbs.

To-infinitive

A lot of my students ask me about how and when to use modal verbs.

I'm going to teach you the basic English grammar and the situations when you will need

There's a lot of information in this video.

Be sure to watch until the end because there's a quiz and homework.

Modal verbs are helping verbs or auxiliary verbs.

They give more information and more specific meaning to the main verb in a sentence.

Modal verbs can express ability, suggestion, permission, certainty, possibility.

I will briefly talk about all of these usages in this video.

Let's have a look at the grammar rules of modal verbs.

Modal verbs always come first before the main verb in a verb phrase.

Here is our modal verb – 'can' comes first.

Modal verbs are followed by a bare infinitive.

'You should to be more careful' is wrong.

Semi-modal verbs are followed by 'to' in a sentence.

When you have 'should', don't use 'to'. 'should' is a modal verb.

When we have modal verbs, we never put 's,' 'ed,' or 'ing' endings.

When we have a modal verb, we do not use 'doesn't' or 'don't' here.

Now that we know more about the grammar of modal verbs,

let's move on and look at some more examples.

Let's take a look at some more modal verbs.

'able to' 'able to' is a semi-modal verb.

Let's take a look at some modals that express advice and suggestions.

'should' is a modal that gives us advice or suggestion.

'shouldn't' is a contraction of 'should not'.

Now, 'ought not to' is not that common, but you may hear it once in a while.

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