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Sashi: /* Modal verb */

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‎Modal verb

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‎Modal verb

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‎Modal verb

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‎Modal verb

Sashi: Created page with "==Noun== ''testament'', ''volonté'' ==Modal verb== Marks the future, and is very often reduced to the sound /l/ ===syntax & semantics=== *i..."

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Created page with "==Noun== ''testament'', ''volonté'' ==Modal verb== Marks the future, and is very often reduced to the sound /l/ ===syntax & semantics=== *i..."

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==Noun==
''testament'', ''volonté''

==Modal verb==
Marks the future, and is very often reduced to the sound /l/

===syntax & semantics===

*invariable
*cannot be combined with (preceded or followed by) other modal verbs or "to"
*can be followed by the verbal base / bare infinitive (or nothing)
*has at least two main meanings (one "radical" (''capability''), one "epistemic" (''possibility''))
 
{| style="background-color:#FEFEF2; color:#301; text-align:center;" border="1" cellspacing="12" cellpadding="10"

! style="background-color:#3D001F; color:#FEFEF2;"| can
! style="background-color:#3D001F; color:#FEFEF2;"| could
| scope="col" | capability / possibility
|-

! style="background-color:#3D001F; color:#FEFEF2;"| will
! style="background-color:#3D001F; color:#FEFEF2;"| would
|scope="col" | future / certainty / ''volonté''
|-

! style="background-color:#3D001F; color:#FEFEF2;"| shall
! style="background-color:#3D001F; color:#FEFEF2;"| should
|scope="col" | value judgement / necessity
|-

! style="background-color:#3D001F; color:#FEFEF2;"| may
! style="background-color:#3D001F; color:#FEFEF2;"| might
|scope="col" | authorization / probability
|-

! style="background-color:#3D001F; color:#FEFEF2;" scope="row" colspan="2"|must
|scope="col" | logical necessity / certainty

|-
|}

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 ==Modal verb==
-Marks the future, and is very often reduced to the sound /'''<span style="color:#060"> əl </span>'''/ or just /'''<span style="color:#060"> l </span>'''/
+Marks the future, and is very often reduced to the sound /'''<span style="color:#060"> əl </span>'''/ or just /'''<span style="color:#060"> l </span>'''/ in speech.
 e.g. it'll, I'll, she'll, etc..
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 *cannot be combined with (preceded or followed by) other modal verbs or "to"
 *can be followed by the verbal base / bare infinitive (or nothing)
-*has at least two main meanings (one "radical" (''volition''), one "epistemic" (''certainty''))
+*has at least two main meanings (one "radical" (''volition / future''), one "epistemic" (''certainty''))
 <br />
 {| style="background-color:#FEFEF2; color:#301; text-align:center;" border="1" cellspacing="12" cellpadding="10"
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 |-
 |}
 [[Category: 100-en]]

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 ==Modal verb==
-Marks the future, and is very often reduced to the sound /'''<span style="color:#060">əl</span>'''/ or just /'''<span style="color:#060">l</span>'''
+Marks the future, and is very often reduced to the sound /'''<span style="color:#060"> əl </span>'''/ or just /'''<span style="color:#060"> l </span>'''/
 e.g. it'll, I'll, she'll, etc..

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 ==Modal verb==
-Marks the future, and is very often reduced to the sound /<span style="color:#060">l</span>/
+Marks the future, and is very often reduced to the sound /''<span style="color:#060">l</span>''/
 ===syntax & semantics===