We use modal verbs with other verbs to express different meanings, such as ability, permission, prediction, duty, total commitment, etc.
Modal verbs are:
will, would, can, could, may, might, shall, should, must
There are some differences from normal verbs:
- It does not change for the third person, so you do not use an ‘s’ for the 3rd person singular.
- I can swim. / He can swim.
- I can’t/cannot swim. / He can’t/ cannot swim.
- Questions are formed by the inversion of the subject and the verb.
- Can you swim? May I help you?
- They are followed by the bare infinitive of another verb (the infinitive without to).
- We can go to the cinema.
- She must go to sleep.
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