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Feb 16, 2016 at 16:16 history closed CDM
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Feb 16, 2016 at 5:58 vote accept Naveen
Feb 15, 2016 at 18:19 answer added user156962 timeline score: 1
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Feb 16, 2016 at 16:16
Feb 15, 2016 at 17:15 comment added Edwin Ashworth ... but you should do your own research first. A lot of modal usages have been covered before on ELU, and you need to show evidence that you've at least looked at some.
Feb 15, 2016 at 16:59 comment added StoneyB on hiatus Modals are very complicated, and there are few 'general' principles governing their use which are both reliable and useful. I think this question is too broad to be answered. If you give us a specific sentence and context in which those four constructions might be used we could take a stab at distinguishing them.
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Feb 15, 2016 at 16:46 history asked Naveen CC BY-SA 3.0