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unusual facts about modal verb


Modal verb

Hawaiian, like the Polynesian languages generally, is an isolating language, so its verbal grammar exclusively relies on unconjugated verbs.


English auxiliaries and contractions

Their uses are detailed at English modal verbs, and tables summarizing their principal meaning contributions can be found in the articles Modal verb and Auxiliary verb.

English conditional sentences

Otherwise, the condition clause in a first conditional pattern is not normally formed with a modal verb, other than can.


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Future tense

The will/shall future consists of the modal verb will or shall together with the bare infinitive of the main verb, as in "He will win easily" or "I shall do it when time permits".