Tag: Certainty

Freedom from ambiguity, one of the four categories for grammatical Modality, the remaining to be CONTINGENCY, POSSIBILITY, and POTENTIALITY. Grammar guidance is not uniform on Modality.

Chapter 9. To tell the fashion in valuable time

Modal verbs do not narrate the real time. Their manner is relative to real time, as they mediate between the grammatical Time and Aspect. Their Past forms may tell the probability is lower today, the same as that it was lower yesterday. We develop Modal cognitive frames. ■More