Modal verb

1. Ability Can is undoubtedly the most frequently used modal verb. The general use of ‘can’  describes a general or specific ability to do something either in a natural or learned way.  E.g. I can swim. = I have the ability to swim. For the elementary level it is interesting to engage students by means of flashcards. They will describe what they can do and what they cannot do. 2. Permission When a speaker asks for permission he/she uses very likely the modal verb ‘can’. Furthermore, it is also important to use ‘please’ when we ask for permission.  E.g. To a friend: Can I borrow your pen, please? o Note: However, could is a more polite way to ask for permission. To the teacher: Could I borrow your pen, please? May 1. Possibility…

research, she revealed that the modality function of the State of the Nation Address of President Benigno Aquino indicated linguistic units that sought cooperation and a sense of belongingness within the group. It also revealed how President Aquino used the modality and level of politeness to show his optimism to achieve greater goals for the country. The study of Barasa, Ndambuki and Telewa (2016) explained the ideological foundations of modality in the post-consultation discourse of former…

the verb that is conjugated into simple present: Angela ________ carrots for her salad. (cuts) Which sentence is written in the imperative? (Listen to your parents.) Select the verb that is conjugated into present continuous: Rather than shoes, I _________ sandals. (am wearing) Identify the verb tense or mood of the bolded word(s): Don't stop believing! (imperative) To discuss activities that are currently in progress, which verb tense would you use? (present continuous) Identify the…

actions or verbs to express various progresses of the state in each situation; therefore, it needs a particle to be added to the sentence to achieve this need. Chinese grammar is not similar to English grammar, in which English can add -ing onto the end of a verb to show the ongoing state of an action. Chinese has many particles such as le, zhe, guo that are being used in the sentences to add aspectual values to the attached verbs in the sentences. Even though aspect particles express different…

Structural Techniques Structure in a novel can improve the story to make it a more important story. The structure in the stories help make them become a form of literary fiction. In the stories The Things They Carried and Love Medicine, the authors use multiple different structure techniques to help improve their stories. These techniques make the story interesting to read and make the characters much more relatable. But, the techniques make the stories more complicated and therefore more…

taken to move animals by humans. However the word Fahrad in German means to drive, as in drive a vehicle. Although there was the concept of driving animals before vehicles, the meaning changed with the change of technology. Now the word driven has change to be used in verbal phrases. What is familiar now was once unfamiliar language in the past, much like the internet is changing our language now. With the internet there have come different forms of communication, mail became snail-mail and the…

population, but American is only 23 percent with same group of people. Moderators of the podcast also said that people who speak Mandarin are 20 percent more likely to save money. However, in the research, Chinese spent 29 billion dollars for consuming smoke, which is much higher than America and other English-speaking countries. Those data show that the conclusion in the podcast is not even close to truth. Some words that English does not have, and some words that the other languages do not…

1. What is the central idea of each text? Answer in complete sentences!!! (3 pts each) “Use It or Lose It: Why Language Changes over Time” Words more commonly used in everyday life are far less likely to evolve compared to less frequently used words, seen across multiple Indo-European languages. One of the main examples, in English, is irregular verbs. As language evolved from Old to Middle to current English, fewer and fewer irregular verbs (non “-ed”) existed. Studies found that the verbs…

‘Burger’ is a word used by Americans to describe a beef or chicken patty stuffed between two buns and cheese. However, in Pakistan it is used to describe someone who wants to be, or is, ‘westernized.’ Westernized here refers to someone who can fluently speak English, goes to a private school, is ‘modern’ and wears jeans. On the other hand is the ‘Bun Kebab’(local food) who can be defined as someone who attends a local school or university with other Bun Kebabs, knows more Urdu than English, may…

It is fitting to begin a study on how modern English speakers describe aspect in Ancient Greek by exploring how the ancient Greeks described this concept themselves. In the Platonic dialogue The Sophist, the verb is defined as “the word indicating action,” or simply the action word. Aristotle defines the verb as “a sound compounded with meaning and indicative of time”. A verb, according to the Greeks, describes action, from which we can deduce further that it has a subject, and it indicates…