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6.1.2 Modal verbs with a complementive predication of AP
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Modal verbs are able to provide the outer structure for a complementive predication. Modals are verbs express possibility, necessity or future. Modal verbs include: konne ‘can, be able to’, moute ‘must’, skälle ‘shall, be going to’, hougje ‘need’, wolle ‘want, will’. The latter two can be used both intransitively and transitively.

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When modals are used to host a complementive predication, they imply the verb to be. An example is given below:

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Hie mout dood.
he must dead
He is sure to die.

Here the the verb to be is implied.

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