plural of modal auxiliary

(logic) Any formal system that attempts to deal with modalities, such as possibility and necessity, but also obligation and permission.

(grammar) The essive-modal case. In the Hungarian language this case can express the state, capacity, task in which somebody is or which somebody has (essive case, e.g. "as a reward", "for example"), or the manner in which the action is carried out, or the language which somebody knows (modal case, e.g. "unexpectedly", "speak English").

plural of modal scale

plural of modal case

(rare, grammar) A double modal (or, rarely, any string of multiple modals, e.g. a triple modal).

plural of double modal

The use of double or stacked modals (or, rarely, triple modals), a phenomenon found in some dialects of English, especially Southern US English.

(grammar) A sequence of two modal verbs, such as "might could", an impossible construction in standard English, but one used in some dialects, especially Southern US English.

(grammar) An adverb that qualifies a predicate with respect to way in which it is true.