The subject: Can you? NOT Do you can? MODALĬan I come with you? ('May' is also used.)Ĭharlie could swim when he was four years old.Ĭould you tell me the way to the station please? 5) Questions are formed by inversion with
4) The negative is formed by the addition of not / n’t:ĭon’t can. 3) They do not have a past form: He/she canted. Modal verbs have the following characteristics: 1) They do not have participle or infinitive forms 2) They do not take the ending -(e)s in the third-person singular. Possibility, prediction, speculation, deduction and necessity. Modal verbs are a type of auxiliary verb which express the mood of another verb.
