Picture a small child saying: "Can’t, shan’t, won’t!" They are using modal verbs to show their feelings and attitude to something. Maybe they are refusing to go to bed or eat their peas. Modal verbs ...

Modal verbs, which express a likelihood, ability, permission, request, order etc., usually help main verbs to state the future. It is the reason they are categorised as auxiliary verbs in the context.

By now, you should find ‘would’ more useful than ever. This is based on the analysis we started last week, projecting the different contexts the modal verb conveys different meanings. We established ...

If you ask me which modal verb is the most versatile, I am likely to choose ‘would’. Although it is readily identified as the past tense form of ‘will’, it has far more uses, to the extent that it ...