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Published Online: Feb 21, 2013
Page range: 49 - 59
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10319-012-0006-y
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The English modal verb system has proved to be a difficult linguistic concept even for advanced EFL students. Their comprehension/usage problems may be of purely morpho-syntactic and semantic nature or may also involve sociolinguistic dimensions. The paper examines the question of polysemy, sociolinguistic factors and the role of ELT models.