There are no prohibitions against the formation of associations or societies for any lawful object - religious, social, political, philanthropic, or the like. Identify the modal verbs in the following text. It is therefore important to teach/learn them from an early stage. 456) modal verbs account for 15% of verb use in academic texts. According to Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad & Finegan (1999, p. Examples are ' can', ' may', might', ' must'. They have grammatical functions, helping to form complex verbal groups. Its function is to modulate the meaning of the verb. A modal verb is a type of auxiliary verb.
