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Modal auxiliaries - what are they? Well, words like **can, could, may, might, would, shall, **etc. And the problem is that they are defective. What does that mean? Well, they're not like other verbs. They don't have an infinitive, or they don't have a past participle form. Now, that means that if we're talking about can, well, what are we going to do if we want to use can as an infinitive, or as a past participle? Well, what we have to do is to look for another verb, which has a similar meaning. And the verb we usually use, is be able to. You can find the audioscripts to these podcasts at https://www.practisingenglish.com/)
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