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A modal is a type of auxiliary verb which is used to express the certainty of following verb. For example 'You must go to bed by 10pm', 'You will find it under the sink', 'You might hurt yourself if you do that'. In these case the modals must, will, might, express the certainty of the verbs go, find and hurt.

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