9.1. AUXILIARY HAVE AND MODAL SYNTAX

If we say that something is a fruit, it is a possible fruit, or maybe it must be fruit, but we do not know the kind, it is first of all our thought process we manage.
Auxiliary HAVE can be quite some handle.

Let us begin with visualizing the infinitive and head time.

38. I remember to exercise.

Let us think about the effect of our exercise on ourselves. The exercise makes us physically fit and happy.

MAIN GRAMMATICAL TIME: THE PRESENT
38a. I am happy to exercise.

If we recall our exercise as something prior, ■→ANTECEDENT, we might say:

MAIN GRAMMATICAL TIME: THE PRESENT
38b. I am happy to HAVE exercised.
(Naturally, we remember our happiness).

Auxiliary HAVE generally can make antecedent reference to grammatical main time; we could say it gives an auxiliary time extent. Antecedent time can be, but it does not have to be a past time.

MAIN GRAMMATICAL TIME: THE PAST
39. I was happy to have exercised

BUT

MAIN GRAMMATICAL TIME: THE FUTURE
40. I will be happy to have exercised.

To compare,
If we say we have learned something, we say we began learning some time before speaking about it, that is, the PRESENT.
If we will have learned, or we had learned something, respectively, we begin learning some time before a FUTURE or PAST time.

Let us return to our theory fruit. If we do not expect to find the stalk, our Modal frame for it will be closed.

PROBABILITY
41. The handle MAY HAVE broken off.
41a. It MIGHT HAVE broken off.
41b. It COULD HAVE broken off.

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Let us compare some more Modal syntax.

CERTAINTY
42. The handle MUST HAVE broken off.

CONTINGENCY
43. You SHOULD HAVE checked on the handle.
43a. The handle OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN checked.
43b. You NEEDN’T HAVE manipulated the handle.

Let us now say we can now see the stalk on the theory fruit other side. We may guess,
44. This CAN / MAY / COULD / MIGHT be the handle.

The Modal frame here is open; we could say, the use for the stalk is an open matter.

Importantly, the Modal use depends on what we think or expect, and Modal frames differ from those for real-time, in management of the grammatical Aspect. Feel welcome to ■→9.2. THE MODAL NET.

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In the first part of the language journey, feel welcome to consider a picture for
■ the grammatical Past, Present, and Future;
■ the Simple, Progressive, and Perfect;
■ infinitive, auxiliary, and head verb forms;
■ the Affirmative, Interrogative, Negative, and Negative Interrogative;
■ irregular verbs and vowel patterns: high and low, back and front.
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