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Originally Posted by riverkid  Stamping your feet and repeating the same thing over and over doesn't qualify as proof, Mike.
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The Grammar Book: An ESL/EFL Teacher's Book
In English, modals are derived from verbs that did carry tense and take agreement markers during a much earlier stage of the language.
In fact, phrasal forms developed in part because the original class of modals lost their connection to time, and the phrasal forms gave English users a way to mark tense and express modality on one and the same verb form.
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<<<Stamping your feet and repeating the same thing over and over doesn't qualify as proof, Mike.>>>
Advice that you would do well by taking.
