Modal words are words in a language that express modality, i.e., possibility, necessity, or contingency. One kind of modal word is the modal verb (should...
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A modal verb is a type of verb that contextually indicates a modality such as a likelihood, ability, permission, request, capacity, suggestion, order...
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Look up Appendix:English modal verbs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs...
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Modal logic is a kind of logic used to represent statements about necessity and possibility. In philosophy and related fields it is used as a tool for...
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Modal adverbs are adverbs, such as probably, necessarily, and possibly that express modality, i.e., possibility, necessity, or contingency. The Cambridge...
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Modal adjectives are adjectives, such as likely, probable and necessary, that express modality, i.e., possibility, necessity, or contingency. Modal adjectives...
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Look up modality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Modality may refer to: Modality (theology), the organization and structure of the church, as distinct...
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Mode (music) (redirect from Modal music)
notes, and rhythms (see § Mode as a general concept). Modal rhythm was an essential feature of the modal notation system of the Notre-Dame school at the turn...
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Quintessential modal expressions include modal auxiliaries such as "could", "should", or "must"; modal adverbs such as "possibly" or "necessarily"; and modal adjectives...
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as a modal, since question words are more likely to appear in modal sentences, like (Why was he walking?) A particular type of interrogative word is the...
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aspectual, and modal. Structural particles are used for grammatical relations. Aspectual particles signal grammatical aspects. Modal particles express...
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Part of speech (redirect from Closed class word)
part of speech or part-of-speech (abbreviated as POS or PoS, also known as word class or grammatical category) is a category of words (or, more generally...
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Similarly, other auxiliary and modal verbs allow for VSO word order ("Must he perish?"). Non-auxiliary and non-modal verbs require insertion of an auxiliary...
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Mode (user interface) (redirect from Modal interface)
interface is not modal as long as the user is fully aware of its current state. Raskin refers to this as "locus of attention" (from the Latin word locus meaning...
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Most common words in English (redirect from Common word)
speech. The list labeled "Others" includes pronouns, possessives, articles, modal verbs, adverbs, and conjunctions. Languages portal Basic English Frequency...
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Italian, and in other Romance languages; "啦" (pinyin: la) is a common modal word at the end of a sentence or a phrase in Mandarin Chinese and Cantonese...
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Modal fictionalism is a term used in philosophy, and more specifically in the metaphysics of modality, to describe the position that holds that modality...
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released two studio albums during his lifetime: Metaphorical Music (2003) and Modal Soul (2005), while the album Spiritual State was released posthumously in...
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Verb (redirect from Doing word)
A verb is a word that generally conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand)...
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conjugated. There are at least three aspects for verbs that are indicated by a modal word before the verb and any object nouns. The aspects are the completive (daahir...
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Logical possibility (category Modal logic)
and as such, is often thought of as the broadest type of possibility. In modal logic, a logical proposition is possible if it is true in some possible...
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technical terms, and adoptions and adaptations of foreign words. Each function word either: gives grammatical information about other words in a sentence or...
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The (redirect from The (word))
It is the definite article in English. The is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account...
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meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect, modality, voice, emphasis, etc. Auxiliary verbs usually accompany an infinitive...
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Profanity (redirect from Swear word)
they drove damn fast. One type of adverbial profanity is to use it as a modal adverb, such as in no you fucking can't. Compound words can be created to...
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The Holy Modal Rounders was an American folk music group, originally a duo (members Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber) who formed in 1963 on the Lower East...
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include Word 2007, Word 2010, Word 2013, Word 2016, and most recently, Word for Office 365. In 1986, an agreement between Atari and Microsoft brought Word to...
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The essive-modal case is a case in the Hungarian language that expresses either the state, capacity, task in which somebody is or which somebody has (essive...
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linguistics, modal particles are a type of grammatical particle used in a sentence to add extra meaning, particularly in spoken language. Modal particles...
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