Keeping a positive attitude during your childâs 6th grade year may not be easy, especially for parents who struggled when they were that age. But itâs important to embrace the changes as a part of your childâs normal transition to adulthoodâeven if you canât bear the thought of your child becoming an adult.
modality moÂ·dalÂ·iÂ·ty (mÅ-dÄl'Ä­-tÄ) n. A therapeutic method or agent, such as surgery, chemotherapy, or electrotherapy, that involves the physical treatment of a disorder. Any of the various types of sensation, such as vision or hearing.
Martin J. Endley suggests that the simplest way to explain modality is to say that it has to do with the stance the speaker adopts toward some situation expressed in an utterance. . . . . [M]odality reflects the speaker's attitude toward the situation being described (Linguistic Perspectives on English Grammar, 2010).