Differentiate between Primary Auxillaries and modal Auxiliaries by giving suitable examples of each?
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Modal auxiliary verbs often express the ideas of necessity and possibility. We use the primary auxiliary 'do' for the present simple and the past simple and we generally only use it in questions and negative sentences. It isn't commonly used in positive sentences.
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In English there are two types of auxiliary verb, primary auxiliaries and modal auxiliaries. The three primary auxiliary verbs are 'be', 'have' and 'do'. There are ten common modal auxiliary verbs and they are 'can', 'could', 'will', 'would', 'shall', 'should', 'may', 'might', 'must' and 'ought'.
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