An Evaluation of Modal Verbs Teacher-Trainees Used in Writing Long Essays and Assignments

Table 3.

Insertion ofmodal verbs in students’ long essays

Kind of modal verbs Freq. No of Insertion

Can 364 84
Could 157 29
Will 228 37
Would 104 14
May 198 26
Might 15 3
Should 189 8
Must 72 6
To be able to 56 4
Need/to 46 2
Used to 15 1

Total 1362 214