ould refuse her if I were you. 9: Я певно би відмовився від неї на Вашому місці. p align="justify"> Example 10: She s far too considerate, if I may say so. 10: Вона занадто уважна, якщо я можу сказати так.
Example 11: You can discuss the matter with him now, if necessary. 11: Ви можете обговорити питання з ним зараз, в разі потреби. p align="justify"> It is obviously that modal verbs represent the speaker s attitude in sentence or in text, especially when we take on translating or interpreting job. Different types of modal verbs express different commands: Probability, usuality, obligation and inclination, and we pay more attention to the three value modulation: High, media and low, which also are so important that they can help us to predicate the meaning or attitude of the speakers or writers. This paper makes a comparative study of modal verbs in translation. It focuses on various meaning or characteristics of modal verbs in the light of sorting, analyzing and citing. Teaching and learning English Modal Verbs is one of the most complicated and difficult parts in language teaching. We should make a tentative study of the necessity of applying pragmatic analysis in translation teaching by the survey on the understanding and application of English modal verb among the English majors.
.2 Differences and Peculiarities of the Usage of Modal Verbs in Newspapers and faction
find the following modal verbs in English: can, may, should, could, would and might. Besides, to have and to be in some of their uses are also classed among modal verbs. A modal verb in combination with the infinitive forms a modal compound predicate.verbs are defective verbs since they lack many forms characteristic of regular verbs: they have no-s in the third person singular in the present tense and no verbal, so they have no analytical forms; some of them lack the form of the past tense.verbs have the following peculiarities:
their interrogative and negative forms are built up without the auxiliary do.
Most of the verbs have more than one meaning. Each of their meanings is characterized by a specific usage. ol>
Some of the meanings may be found in all kinds of sentences; others occur only in affirmative of interrogative or negative sentences;
Different meanings may be associated with different forms of the infinitive - simple and perfect (both in the active and passive forms), continuous and perfect continuous;
If the modal verbs have more than one form (can - could, may - might, will - would), their different meanings are not necessarily found in all those forms.
The use of modal verbs is in mos...
