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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.
"Do not go gentle into that good night" is a poem in the form of a villanelle by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953), and is one of his best-known works. [1] Though first published in the journal Botteghe Oscure in 1951, [ 2 ] Thomas wrote the poem in 1947 while visiting Florence with his family.
I shall go swimming this afternoon. → I said that I should go swimming in the afternoon. As with the conditional use referred to above, the use of should in such instances can lead to ambiguity; in the last example it is not clear whether the original statement was shall (expressing plain future) or should (meaning "ought to").
As for shall vs should, my (northwestern US) ears prefer shall but the difference is very slight. Shall focuses on your magnimony, and you may already be half-standing when you say it. Should focuses on your social obligation, and you may have no intention of opening the window unless the other person says "yes".
Not just a few, but a massive flood that threatened to drown anyone who tried to keep up. And that flood didn't even include requests from the Las Vegas Raiders, who waited until Tuesday to fire ...
The longest airport trek in the United States is at Dallas Fort Worth, where the walk from an entrance in Terminal B to Terminal E is 2.16 miles, according to a study by shoe company Kuru Footwear ...
The Bills (11-3) are two games behind the 13-1 Kansas City Chiefs for the No. 1 seed in the AFC with three weeks to go, though Buffalo has the tiebreaker, thanks to its 30-21 win on Nov. 17.
Statements consisting only of original research should be removed. ... Now I lay me down to sleep is a Christian children's bedtime prayer from the 18th century.