When making suggestions, modal verbs can be very useful.

做建议时情词非常有用。

If you have more certainty, you can say 'I think' before the modal: I think it might be Shakira.

如果你还是比较有把握，可以在情词前加上“I think”（我认为）。我觉得应该是Shakira。

And I would say, if the healthcare industry prepares for the increase in the aging population, the potential problem of higher taxes could be avoided, using a modal here, because it's speculation so that's great.

我要写，如果医疗保健行业为人口老龄化的增长做好了准备，那么潜在的高税收问题可以被避免，这里使用了情词，因为这是推测，很好。

So you already know I'm sure about superlatives and modals of necessity.

你已知道「最高级」和「情词」的重要性。

We often use the words 'maybe' and 'perhaps' without a modal to express uncertainty.

我们常用maybe和perhaps而不是情词表达不确定性。

These days we are more likely to use modal verbs such as 'should' or 'would'.

现在我们更多的时候是用情词should和would。

Grammatically, modal verbs follow their own rules.

在语法上，情词遵循自己的规则。

No, why? Because that's a modal verb.

不用，为什么？因为有个情词。

In this sentence, should is the modal verb, and visit is the main verb.

在这个句子中，should 是情词，而 visit 是主要词。

However, modals do not always connect to exact ideas about present and past time.

然而，情词并不总是与有关现在和过去的确切概念联系在一。

'Will' is a modal verb, so to form a question, we change the word order.

Will 是情词，所以如果要构成疑问句，我们需要改变词序。

So, of course, all questions in English have modal verbs.

所以当然了，英语中所有问题都要用到情词。

But that is a demand and it's very direct, it's very strong and aggressive. Just changing that into a question and using a modal, softens it. It makes it more diplomatic and polite.

但这是一个需求，非常直接，非常强烈和咄咄逼人。只要把它变成一个问题，并使用一个情词，就会软化它。这使它更加外交和礼貌。

Now what is so interesting about these modal verbs with have, could have, should have, would have, might have, so with all of these reductions the word after have impacts the pronunciation.

这些情词有趣的一点是，have，could have，should have，would have，might have，它们的缩读都会影响后面的发音。

“So you can have power lifting movements, you can have Olympic lifting movements, you can have body weight stuff. We can have what we call single modal, running, rowing, swimming, anything can be thrown into a workout with Cross Fit.”

“可以采用举重运，用奥林匹克举重运或体重项目，可以采用我们所说的单一模式，比如跑步、划船、游泳以及任何可以加入全面强健的项目。”

If you're not familiar with the modals that I give you today, we have a lot of lessons on engVid that discuss: " have to" , " had better" , " must" , " should" , etc.

如果你还不熟悉情词，我今天就来告诉大家，在engVid上有很多这方面的课程，探讨有关“必须”、“最好”、“需要”、“应该”等等。

Remember when you write your response to an if or an imaginary question, you should use modals such as would and could, when you're discussing a hypothetical imagined or unreal situation, rather than will and can.

请记住，当你在回答如果或假设问题时，如果你在讨论一个假设的或非真实的情景时，你应该使用情词，例如 would 和 could，而不是 will 和 can。

There are different situations when you may need to use modal verbs and I have a more detailed video on how to use them in IELTS and I will link it in the video description box below.

在不同的情况下，你可能需要使用情词，我有一期关于如何在雅思考试中使用情词的更详细的视频，我会在下面的视频简介框中附上链接。

It'sn strange, but even though the speaker is expressing a WISH about the future, they're using past tense-in this case COULD, the past tense of the modal verb CAN.

很奇怪，说话者表达的是对未来的愿望，却用得过去时。这个例子中用的是 COULD，情词 CAN 的过去时。

To make a question tag with one, use a modal verb such as 'could', 'would' or 'will', but be careful of being impolite.

要变成反义疑问句，就要用到 could、would 或者 will，不过要注意委婉礼貌。