Howard Shepherd and Dave Shepherd should, can, and must discuss modal verbs.
Howard gives a shoutout to Henrik Hansen and to the Danish language-related podcast Sproghjørnet. (2:17)
Howard and Dave give an overview of auxiliary verbs, of which modal verbs are a subset. (3:17)
Music bumper from “Just Looking,” by The Jerrys (9:32)
Modal verbs and grammatical mood (10:11)
Song: “You Can Never Hold Back Spring,” by Tom Waits (15:49)
Rude word of the week: “wannabe” (18:14)
Music bumper from “Melancolica” by Mauricio Cuburu (22:08)
Modal verbs in languages other than English (22:49)
Music courtesy of The Podsafe Music Network
Theme music by Kick the Cat
time: 30:31
size: 28 Mb
rating: G (We managed to talk about this without being rude.)
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