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In this unit, I learned a lot about modal auxiliary verbs. Modals add meaning to the main verb and are used to express different ideas. Some of these ideas include: obligation, possibility/probability, permission/prohibition, ability and advice. It's important to know the difference between some of these modals when speaking English in everyday life. For example, asking \"Can I borrow your pen?\" instead of \"May I borrow your pen?\" may invoke some type of bitterness from the listener if the listener was a stranger. This is because the modal 'may' is more formal than the modal 'can'. At the same time, I'm not saying that you can't use 'can' in front of strangers, because it is charted as an 'informal polite request', but it is worthwhile to note the differences so that one can apply it to the real word effectively. I also learned about active and passive voices, where the sentences can have the same meaning but different focuses. In the active voice, the focus is mainly on the agent, or the 'do-er' of the action. In the passive voice, the focus is, instead, on the subject.
