Picture a small child saying: "Can’t, shan’t, won’t!" They are using modal verbs to show their feelings and attitude to something. Maybe they are refusing to go to bed or eat their peas. Modal verbs ...

Speaker 1: (TO AUDIENCE) So we're writing our end of year reports, for the children that are ready to leave and go to school in September. Speaker 2: (TO OTHER PEOPLE) I'm on the area for improvement ...