| 释义 |
modal auxiliary
noun
: a verb or a grammatical form resembling a verb that is characteristically used with a verb of predication and expresses a modal modification (as can, shall, will, must, might, ought, could, should, would, may, need, dare) and that in English differs formally from other verbs in lacking -s, -ing, and past-tense forms and shares with other auxiliaries the affixing of negative -n't |