 Here it must be noted that Sherwood’s views of modality differ significantly from modern views. Modern modal logic interprets modes in a nominal way, e.g., ‘necessary:’, ‘impossible:’, etc. But Sherwood is reluctant to admit a statement such as “That Socrates is running is necessary” as genuinely modal (Kretzmann 1966, p. 43), instead viewing this as an assertoric categorical statement predicating ‘necessary’ of “that Socrates is running”. Similarly, “Socrates is running necessarily” does not count as a modal statement, because here ‘necessarily’ modifies ‘running’, not “the inherence of the predicate in the subject”. The only genuinely modal construction is that exhibited by “Socrates is necessarily running” (Kretzmann 1966, p. 42).  The importance of the adverbial construction, where the modal adverb modifies the inherence of the predicate with the subject, is emphasized in the discussions of modal adverbs in Syncategoremata, which include not only the chapter mentioned above but also analyses of how modal adverbs interact with other syncategorematic terms such as “only”, “unless”, and “if” (Uckelman 2020, §5).