An Evaluation of Modal Verbs Teacher-Trainees Used in Writing Long Essays and Assignments
Table 1.
Substitution ofmodal verbs in students’ long essays (LEs)
|
| Kinds of modal verbs |
Total freq. |
No of substitution |
|
|
| Can |
364 |
12 |
|
| Could |
157 |
4 |
|
| Will |
228 |
6 |
|
| Would |
104 |
8 |
|
| May |
98 |
7 |
|
| Might |
15 |
1 |
|
| Should |
189 |
90 |
|
| Must |
72 |
36 |
|
| To be able/ to |
56 |
2 |
|
| Need/to |
46 |
2 |
|
| Used to |
15 |
1 |
|
| Want to |
16 |
0 |
|
| Have to |
1 |
1 |
|
| Shall |
1 |
1 |
|
|
| Total |
1362 |
171 |
|
|
|
|
