Modal Verbs

Modal Verbs List in English

Modal Verbs List in English

OUGHT TO Moral duty, insistent advice, strict recommendation
NEED (un)necessity
BE TO Obligation arising out of arrangement or agreement
HAVE TO Unwillingness, forced circumtances
WOULD Wish (with “to like”), polite request, a habit of the past
SHOULD Necessity, advice, blame, recommendation, reproach, regret
USED TO Repeated action in the past
CAN Ability, doubt, astonishment, permission, Polite request
MAY Permission, if not prohibition, supposition with doubt
MUST Obligation, firm necessity, logical conclusion, probability
SHALL intention, supposition
WILL Wish, desire, will, confidence, in the future
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