Jose A. Carillo
Jose A. Carillo

In last week’s column, I started a review of the English modal auxiliaries to put in context a Filipina English teacher’s exasperation over the strong—and I’d say often unwarranted—preference by Filipino writers for the modals “would” and “could” in their newspaper reports and stories.

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