Effect of Modal Verbs on Students’ Writing in the Colleges of Education
Table 1.
Non – harmonious use of modalverbs in students’ Long Essays
|
| Kinds of modal verbs |
Total freq. |
Non-harmonious |
|
|
| Can |
364 |
56 |
|
| Could |
157 |
31 |
|
| Will |
228 |
40 |
|
| Would |
104 |
15 |
|
| May |
98 |
30 |
|
| Might |
15 |
7 |
|
| Should |
189 |
35 |
|
| Must |
72 |
13 |
|
| To be able/to |
56 |
9 |
|
| Used to |
15 |
3 |
|
| Need/to |
46 |
6 |
|
| Want to |
16 |
2 |
|
| Have to |
9 |
2 |
|
|
| Total |
1369 |
249 |
|
|
|
|
