On Modal Hedges in EAP —— A Study Based on Corpus;

This paper makes a study on modal hedges in academic discourse as well as their appraisal meanings from the point of view of appraisal theory.

This study compares the usage of the several selected epistemic modals as hedging devices-could,think,you know and maybe-in the corpus of English conversation on asking for/offering advice by a group of Chinese sophomores of English major and in that of the native speakers,i.

This paper discusses some English model auxiliary verb and model verb used in the project bid and tender document by comparison.

In English,when modal auxiliary verbs and infinitive perfect tense are used together,it usually refers to something past.

This paper studies the syntactic and semantic features of modal auxiliary verbs from a cognitive perspective and mainly examines their structures related with their semantics, meanwhile it proves the grammaticality of Mr.