CONCERNING MODALITY

Introduction: General Remarks Concerning Modality……………………3

Chapter I

                        Levels at Which Modality Is Expressed……………………………7

Chapter II

                        Expressions of Modality Within the Verb Phrase Structure………..15

                                    I Mood………………………………………………………15

                                    The English Moods………………………………………….16

1.      The Indicative Mood…………………………………….18

2.       The Subjunctive Mood…………………………………..19

3.                                                                                                 II Modal Verbs…………………………………………….…20

       Chapter III

                        Other Ways of Expressing Modality in English and Romanian……..31

                                    Lexical and Stylistical Means of

                                    Expressing Modality……………………………………….…40

A.     Modality Achieved by Different

Parts of Speech……………………………………………40

B.     Phraseology……………………………………………….41

C.     Stylistical and Rhetoric Means of

Expressing Modality in English

and Romanian…………………………………………… 42

Chapter IV

                        Teaching Modal Verbs……………………………………………….45

Bibliography………………………………………………………………… 45