![]() This verb generally appears as a bare infinitive, although in some definitions, a modal verb can also govern the to-infinitive (as in the case of ought). They function as auxiliary verbs: they modify the modality of another verb, which they govern.They are defective: they are not used as infinitives or participles (except occasionally in non-standard English see § Double modals below), nor as imperatives, nor (in the standard way) as subjunctives.They do not add the ending -(e)s in the third-person singular (the present-tense modals therefore follow the preterite-present paradigm). ![]()
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