This document presents a new modified F-expansion method to obtain traveling wave solutions of the Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (BBM) equation and modified BBM equation. The method is applied to these nonlinear partial differential equations. Specifically:
1) The traveling wave solutions of the BBM equation are considered by substituting a transformation.
2) The solution is assumed to have the form of a polynomial in F(ξ) and its derivatives, where F(ξ) satisfies a Riccati equation.
3) Three explicit solutions for the BBM equation are obtained in terms of hyperbolic and trigonometric functions.