She repeated —. But of course I ought to. Thank you for making my mind up. Why should it make you any happier? Decision is torment for anyone with imagination. When you decide, you multiply the things you might have done and now never can.
He stopped before describing himself, if, indeed, he had been going to do so. Hide explicit modal verbs. Click here to see modal and quasi-modal verbs in the above text revealed.
Nenna and Maurice are indecisive characters, and their inability to make decisions is conveyed by use of modal and quasi-modal auxiliaries this is a dense concentration of modals for so short a text and open-ended questions. When considering whether auxiliary have to is acting as a modal or not, see if it can be replaced by a modal.
In context, Why do you have to put up with Harry? Concrete facts are not discussed, other than a brief dismissal of Southport. Rather, they consider future actions, and voice opinion about decision-making. Notice the use of epistemic and deontic can :. Maurice, ought I to go away? If Maurice belongs to you, why do you have to put up with Harry? Similarly, is Richard unable or unwilling to give up being half in the Navy?
Further, the tokens of should can be analysed to see if they express possibility, obligation, or whether they are ambiguous:. In literary texts, such ambiguity can be highly useful for authors as it allows multiple interpretations. The extract below is from a play about estate agents trying to make sales. You are commenting using your Google account. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email.
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She parked her pram next to me and sat down. I was minding my own business, playing on my phone, and then I spotted something from the corner of my eye.
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