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The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to express modality, properties such as possibility and obligation. [a] They can most easily be distinguished from other verbs by their defectiveness (they do not have participles or plain forms [b]) and by their lack of the ending ‑(e)s for the third-person singular.
The first English grammar, Bref Grammar for English by William Bullokar, published in 1586, does not use the term "auxiliary" but says: All other verbs are called verbs-neuters-un-perfect because they require the infinitive mood of another verb to express their signification of meaning perfectly: and be these, may, can, might or mought, could, would, should, must, ought, and sometimes, will ...
wouldn’t: would not wouldn’t’ve: would not have y’ain’t: you are not / you have not / you did not (colloquial) y’all: you all (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’d’ve: you all would have (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’dn't’ve: you all would not have (colloquial/Southern American English) y’all’re
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As for whether y'all'dn't've is a real contraction, the closest thing I've heard to it is the slurring of "You wouldn't've" at the beginning of a sentence. I think y'all'dn't've would make no sense if spoken as it lacks the wou sound, and so ends up sounding like ya'll didn't've which is not a valid contraction.
They wouldn't let us in, nor would they explain what we had done wrong. Another example of clauses or sentences linked is: I like reading books, and I also enjoy watching movies . There are also correlative conjunctions , where as well as the basic conjunction, an additional element appears before the first of the items being linked. [ 33 ]