Can Not Data 1 Deontic Modality 1 Can
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Data 2
“The investors have the money but on the other hand they need ready-to-execute infrastructure projects so they can start construction
quickly,” he said on the sidelines of a seminar in Central Jakarta on Wednesday. D7, T8.58
The second data as epistemic modality above have function as controlling a possible action. The center of the sentence is on the case
that the investors have the money but on the other hand they need ready-to-execute infrastructure projects. This statement can be said
that Asian Development Bank ADB economist Priasto Aji wanted to giving solution for the investor is possible to start construction
quickly. The third data explained below.
Data 3
Starting with 130 workers, the company can now provide jobs for 350 local people; 85 percent of them are women who used to be
unemployed. D7, T9.48
Quotation above is the third data as epistemic modality that have function as stating it as a fact. The case of the sentence as
evidence is starting with 130 workers. The subject the company is not the center of the sentence because there is the case that makes the
reader focus on. So that with knowing the fact for certain that starting with 130 workers, the editor stating it as a fact that the company now
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provide jobs for 350 local people in the middle village in Bali. The last data that represent modal verb can is explained below.
Data 4
A bank that holds a promissory note can also put the instrument up for sale to other banks or investors and even use it as security for a
repurchase agreement. D9, T10.59
The next data above is quotation that there is a modal verb can
that have function as controlling a possible action. The fact that became a case by BI Governor Agus Martowardojo said that
promissory notes would be one instrument that the authorities planned to reinstate after the policy harmonization. So that the editor wanted to
deliver possible action that a bank that holds a promissory note can also put the instrument up for sale to other banks or investors and even
use it as security for a repurchase agreement. The next function that the writer explained is from modal verb could as epistemic modality.