What are Modal Verbs?
English: Year 5 & 6 National Curriculum, topic 2.6.1
What Are Modal Verbs?
Modal verbs are verbs that affect other verbs in sentences. But you need to know that modal verbs show...
Modal verbs
- Modal verbs are verbs that affect other verbs in sentences.
- Modal verbs show:
- possibility, obligation, permission, ability
Possibility & obligation
- I might go to school today.
- 'Might' shows possibility.
- You should phone your mother.
- 'Should' shows obligation.
Permission & ability
- Example: You may take a shower.
- 'May' shows permission.
- You can buy that phone.
- 'Can' shows ability.
Test yourself on What are Modal Verbs?
What 4 things do modal verbs show?
What does each modal verb show?
What's the modal verb in this sentence?
She might eat dinner, watch a movie, and call her friend.