My 6th Learning Log

6th Week of Studying on August 8th 2018 
(MODAL AUXILIARY IN BRITISH ENGLISH: A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF MODALITY THROUGH BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS)
     Hi My lovely followers and new readers. It's me Daniel. For this time, I will talk about MODAL AUXILIARY IN BRITISH ENGLISH. 
I had read the article named MODAL AUXILIARY IN BRITISH ENGLISH: A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF MODALITY THROUGH BRITISH NATIONAL CORPUS written by KRIANDRAI VATHANALAOHA  

     According to the paper, the writer focused about using 3 modals verbs (must, should, and have to) through the British Nationality Corpus web-based program (BNCweb). 

What is The British National Corpus (henceforth BNC)?

The British National Corpus (henceforth BNC) contains approximately 100 million words and it is constructed by collection of various types of written British English of the late twentieth century for 90 percent and of different types of spoken data for 10 percent. 

The findings of the paper: 

MUST can be classified into three types: main verbs (''admit'', "go", "take", "say", "make", "confess", "remember", "ensure", "decide", "pay" come" and "learn"), an auxiliary verb ("be") and auxiliary verbs ("of" and "have") used in unreal condition in if-clause. 

Through the analysis, grammatical patterns can be displayed through colocations as follows: 
 * Subject + must + auxiliary ("be", "have", "of") + Past participle 
 * Subject + must + main verbs ("admit", "go", "take" and etc.)

HAVE TO 
Through the analysis, grammatical patterns can be displayed through colocations as follow: 
  * Subject + have to + auxiliary ("be") + Past Participle 
  * Subject + have to + main verb 
  * Subject + will/would + have to + main verb

SHOULD 
Through the analysis, grammatical patterns can be displayed through colocations as follows: 
 * Subject + should + auxiliary ("be") + Past participle 
 * Subject + should + infinitive 
 * Subject + should + auxiliary ("have") + Past participle