shall, should, will, would, and ought to.

Function

Modal verbs have a wide variety of communicative functions, but these functions can generally be related to a scale ranging from possibility ("may") to necessity ("must"), in terms of one of the following types of modality:
*epistemic modality, concerned with the theoretical possibility of propositions being true or not true (including likelihood and certainty)
*deontic modality,

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