(Pick out the Modal Auxiliary from the sentence and state its function) I know I could not afford caviar, but I could not very well tell her that.
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The Modal Auxiliary in the aforementioned sentence is ‘could’.
Modal Auxiliary can be defined as verbs or the Verbs phases which are used to specify that something is essential, advisable, possible, plausible or permissible. The conditional sentences cover the modal auxiliaries like will, would, can and could along with the word if. Conditional sentences are of two types, real and unreal. Real sentences rely on factual as well as habitual situations, whereas unreal sentences are based on hypothetical situations.
Also, the Helping verbs or auxiliary verbs such as will, shall, may, might, can, could, must, ought to, should, would, used to, need are used in conjunction with main verbs. They are used to express shades of time and mood. The amalgamation of helping verbs with main verbs creates what is called verb phrases or verb strings.
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I can buy some jagerry and coconut tomorrow