Tag: Contingency

Derived from Latin “tangere, tangens”, “touching upon”, one of the Travelers in Grammar four categories for Modality to denote factors on which activity or faculty may depend or rely.

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