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14 14 Modal Verbs
Warm-up
Fill in the blanks with appropriate modals.
1. _________________ Raman run long distances when he was young?
2. _________________ you please allow me to use your phone? The battery of my phone has
drained.
3. _________________ the students buy lunch from school canteen today?
4. _________________ you teach me how to solve the rubric? You are a genius at it.
5. I _________________ contact the customer care service to get the information.
6. They _________________ finish the project on time.
The words that help in the formation of different tenses, passive forms, interrogatives and
negatives are called the auxiliary or helping verbs. The most commonly used auxiliary verbs are
am, is, are, was, were, have and do.
Modals
The helping verbs that are used along with verbs to express or indicate permission, possibility,
certainty and necessity are called the modals or model verbs.
They are different from verbs like sing, walk, talk, give, etc. Commonly used modals are can, could,
may, might, will, would, shall, should and must.
Modals are placed before the main verbs. The different characteristics of modal verbs are:
¾ They never change their form. They do not take -s, -ed or -ing form.
Read the sentences given below.
• She speaks English. She can speak English.
• He comes by six o’clock. He should come by six o’clock.
They are always followed by an infinitive without to.
Read the sentences given below.
• She can to speak French. ()
She can speak French. ()
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