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(2) Agatha must go to jail. (expressing deontic modality) (expressing deontic modality) The sentence in (1) might be spoken by someone who has decided that all of the relevant facts in a particular murder investigation point to the conclusion that Agatha was the murderer, even though it may or may not actually be the case.
The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to express modality, properties such as possibility and obligation. [a] They can most easily be distinguished from other verbs by their defectiveness (they do not have participles or plain forms [b]) and by their lack of the ending ‑(e)s for the third-person singular.
Last summer we would go fishing a lot. (i.e., we used to go fishing a lot) In particular, would and should are used as the past equivalents of will and shall in indirect speech reported in the past tense: The ladder will fall. → He said that the ladder would fall. You shall obey me! → He said that I should obey him.
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It's not unusual for a typical 16-year-old to be attractive to many men and the younger we go the fewer and fewer men are attracted to that age group." [13] Ephebophilia is used only to describe the preference for mid-to-late adolescent sexual partners, not the mere presence of some level of sexual attraction. [1]
“There’s a difference between snooping through their stuff, which means that this toy wasn’t yours to find in the first place, or if they left it out somewhere for you to see.
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Partly because puberty varies, some definitions of chronophilias (sexual preference for a specific physiological appearance related to age) show overlap between pedophilia, hebephilia and ephebophilia. [2] For example, the DSM-5 extends the prepubescent age to 13, [6] and the ICD-10 includes early pubertal age in its definition of pedophilia ...