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Effect of Modal Verbs on Students’ Writing in the Colleges of Education
Universal Journal of Literature and Linguistics
| Vol 2, Issue 1
Table 3. Improper hedging of modal verbs instudents’ Long Essays
| Kinds of modal verbs | Total Freq. | Improper hedging |
| Can | 364 | 33 |
| Could | 157 | 14 |
| Will | 228 | 7 |
| Would | 104 | 2 |
| May | 98 | 3 |
| Might | 15 | 2 |
| Should | 189 | 5 |
| Total | 1155 | 66 |