The Syntactic and Semantic use of Modal Auxiliaries

Authors

  • Suhad Abdul Sattar Al-Baghdadi Rafida Mansour Al- Hilu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35167/muja.v0i45.290

Abstract

Modal auxiliaries, among all other auxiliaries in English (be, have, do) are considered the most auxiliaries that cause difficulties to most Iraqi students learning English as a foreign language. The aim of this paper is to shed light on the syntactic and semantic use of modal auxiliaries, namely will / would, can /could, shall /should, must, may /might and ought. The researchers have tried to pinpoint the mistakes that the students make in using the above – mentioned auxiliaries, and find the proper methods that help them to improve their performance

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Published

2018-08-17

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No. 45 (2007)

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