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Unit 18 – Modals, phrasal verbs & passive voice
Unit 18 explains the use of modal auxiliary verbs and defines 'modals' as follows. Modal verbs are used before other verbs to add meaning to the main verb. Modals can be used to express a number of different ideas, such as: Ability – I can, Advice – You should, Obligation – You must, Permission – You may, Possibility – I might etc. Modal auxiliary verbs can also be use to express differing degrees of formality. Modal auxiliary verbs do not change in form according to person and modal verbs are followed by a verb in its base form. There are two classes of modal aux. verbs discussed in this unit, true modals and semi-modal auxiliary verbs. The nine true modal aux verbs are the following and I will write them in the way I found it the easiest to remember. Will – would, could, should, might... May – can, must, shall!
For phrasal verbs I had to seek a little outside help to better understand this section. Here is a short summary of what I found. Type 1: intransitive – doesn't need an object. Type 2 : separable – main verb can be separated by the object from the particle. Type 3: non-separable – object must go at the end of the phrasal verb, can have one or two particles. Type 4: two objects – least common phrasal verbs but distinctive because they have two objects. Type 4 is of course not mentioned in our unit but I thought it was worth noting.
Finally the use of active and passive voice. In an active sentence the form is – subject + verb + object. The doer or the agent or the verb is the subject. Whereas when using the passive voice the object of the active verb becomes the subject of the passive verb. In a passive voice sentence the form is – object + was + past participle + subject. In the passive form of the subject, doer or the agent, is not know, less important, or we don't want to say, exactly who performs an action.
