Could you lend me N2,000? NOTE: There is a situation the present modal verbs like ‘can’ and ‘may’ can indicate past actions: when\xa0 making deductions about the past. For instance ...

Modal verbs are easy to spot because there are so few of them. In addition to must, shall, will, should, would, can, could, may and might, we can add ought to and have to. If we are told that we ...