Contraction
/kəˈnät/,/ˈkanˌät/,
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Can not,
Web Definitions:
- In the English language, a modal verb is an auxiliary verb that can be used to change the grammatical mood of a sentence. The key way to identify a modal verb is by its defectiveness (they have neither participles nor infinitives).
- never spelled as two words in modern standard usage.