Effect of Modal Verbs on Students’ Writing in the Colleges of Education

Table 2.

Theme 1- Non-harmonious use of modal verbs in students’assignments

Kinds of modal verbs Total freq. Non-harmonious

Can 71 19
Could 34 4
Will 169 27
Would 148 16
Want to 46 4
Need/to 26 1
To be able to 39 1
Have to 9 1

Total 542 73