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This unit helps to understand the various modal auxiliary verbs, phrasal verbs as well as active and passive voice. Modal auxiliary verbs are used to express the speaker's feelings or attitude. There are true modal auxiliary verbs as well as semi-modal auxiliary verbs. The true modal auxiliary verbs include will, would, should, shall, might, may, must, can and could. There are 11 major usages of the true modal auxiliary verbs. These include expressing ability, advice, deduction, obligation, offer, permission, possibility, prohibition, prediction, promise and request. Semi-modal auxiliary verbs include need to, have to and have got to.
Passive voice is used when it is not known who performs an action, is unimportant who performs an action or when there is a need to change the focus of who performs an action. The tense of the sentence does not change for both the active voice as well as passive voice.
There are three categories of relative clauses such as an independent clause, dependent clause and relative cause. A relative clause is introduced by a relative noun such as who, which, that, whose and whom. A defining relative clause is essential to the meaning of the sentence whereas a non-defining relative clause is not essential to the meaning of a sentence. Specifically, commas are critical in non-defining relative clauses.
Phrasal verbs are a combination of a verb and one or two particles. These particles are either prepositions or adverbs or both. A phrasal verb has a different meaning from its original verb. There are three types of phrasal verbs such as intransitive, transitive separable and transitive inseparable. Intransitive verbs are phrasal verbs that do not require an object and are not followed by an object in the sentence. Without an object, a sentence with phrasal verbs still expresses meaning. For example; the plane took off. This is a complete sentence regardless of an object in the sentence. Transitive separable phrasal verbs contain phrasal verbs that can be broken up and used in different parts of a sentence. For example; Please turn on the light would still have the same meaning if rephrased as please turn the light on. Transitive inseparable phrasal verbs contain phrasal verbs that cannot be separated and used in different places in a sentence. For example; She looks after her children. This sentence cannot be rephrased by separating the phrasal verbs looks after.
Phrasal verbs may be a challenge to teach students as it personally took me more time to understand and required more in-depth study and reading to grasp comfortably. Given time, the right teaching resources and plenty of examples, phrasal verbs can be taught efficiently.
