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modal
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adjective
relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution
the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30
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adjective
relating to or expressing the mood of a verb
modal auxiliary
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adjective
of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode
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noun
(= modal auxiliary verb)
an auxiliary verb (such as 'can' or 'will') that is used to express modality
verb
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noun
the word class that serves as the predicate of a sentence
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noun
a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence