ABSTRACT
Anything in a language that goes beyond the factual, anything that expresses intention, purpose, wish, attitude, prohibition or any other kind of directedness or illocutionary force can be considered modal or subjunctive. In many languages the subjunctive has its own set of verb forms which stand in contrast to the verb forms of the indicative (factual) mood. English has traces of subjunctive verb forms in structures like I request that be be there. If I were younger, I would go. Heaven forbid! and so on. The fact that these forms are gradually disappearing from the English language does not mean that medals are going out of fashion, though, just that the forms are changing. This chapter gives an overview of how medals are formed systematically in Bangla. It does not take into account lexical items such as adverbials, verbs like পারা be possible, চাওয়া want. Examples for পারা and চাওয়া can be found in Ch. 21 (imperfective participle).
