Follow Speedy Pete's adventures and mishaps as he gets to grips with modal verbs. Suitable for teaching English Language at Key Stage 3 or Third Level.

Modal verbs support other verbs in a sentence to indicate possibility or necessity. Learn about modal verbs with BBC KS3 Bitesize.

Epistemic modal verbs and adverbs of necessity are claimed to be positive polarity items. We study their behavior by examining modal spread, a phenomenon that appears redundant or even anomalous, ...