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Frequency and Use of Modals in Cameroon English and Application to Language Education
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Nkemleke, Daniel – Indian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2007
This contribution investigates the frequency patterns of the modal verbs as they occur in the one-million-word corpus of Cameroon written English. An analysis of dominant senses of some of the modals is also attempted. I have used results and statistical figures from British and American English (as reported in studies such as Biber et al. 1999…
Descriptors: Verbs, Foreign Countries, North American English, Language Usage