Dear List,

Is it reasonable to think of "have + infinitive" as a modal construction with the infinitive being the verb of the sentence?

<I have to go> <I have to eat> <I ought to go> < I ought to eat> <I must go> <I must eat> all seem like very similar ways of saying the same thing.

Thanks,

Scott Woods

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