Sentence examples for modal auxiliary from inspiring English sources

The modal expressions of deontic modality typical for LAC, i.e. NEG 可/可以 kě/kěyǐ NEG and the modal auxiliary 必 bì, apparently cease to be relevant in the EMC Buddhist literature and new forms develop and increase the complexity of the modal system.

Inflection is expressed by combining the following elements: a verb stem (simple, complex, or compound) + (optional modal auxiliary) + tense + gender-number-person (g-n-p) marker.

A modal auxiliary denotes such categories as ability/inability, permission/prohibition, probability/improbability, or obligative/non-obligative. Tense expresses the notion of past, present, or future action.

I should have been more specific: Latin does not have modal auxiliary verbs such as English can, could, may, might, must, shall, should, will, would; the only auxiliary (but non-modal) verb in Latin is esse (to be) which is used to form the present perfect, future perfect and past perfect passive tenses of regular transitive verbs, and corresponding forms of deponent and semi-deponent verbs.

Syntactically, the modal auxiliary verbs discussed here appear below both epistemic adverbs and negation.

The second group is only represented by the modal auxiliary verb 必 bì.

Complex verb phrases are formed with modal auxiliaries (e.g., kan 'can') and infinitives or with the perfect auxiliaries ha ve) 'have' and få 'get' (Icelandic geta) and the perfect participle.

Modal auxiliaries serve as premodifiers in verbal groups.

MODALITY can be realized in the form of modal auxiliaries, modal adverbs, or separate clauses.

There are eight POS tags: verbs, nuns, adjectives, modal auxiliaries, pre-determiners, interjections, adverbs, and pronouns.

For example, in the following clauses, both modal auxiliaries and adverbs are used in the same clause.