Sunday, November 11, 2007

Modal verb


This picture comes from 'street talk',interviews by Rebecca Tsui,on p.5,from the November 8,2007 edition of Young Post in the South China Morning Post newspaper.This is an example of modal verb''would''. Reason used in the example:wish, request (more polite than will).

1 comment:

Wootang01 said...

Ada, your explanation is unacceptable; tell me, in this situation, is would being used as a request or to express a wish?