Modal verbs
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Examples
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Uses
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Can
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He can swim magnificently.
Can we go outside?
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Ability,
Permission, Request
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Could
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My Mum could play tennis when she was younger.
Could I have a glass of water, please?
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Past ability, Permission, Request, suggestion
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Shall
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Shall we go to the park?
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Suggestion
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Should
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You look sick. You should see a doctor.
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Advice
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May
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It may rain in the weekend.
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Permission,
future possibility
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Might
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I might meet you tonight.
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Doubtful
possibility
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Will
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I’ll help you with your homework.
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Instant
decision, offer, promise, prediction
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Would
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Would you like to go to the cinema?
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Request,
Invitation
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Must
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You must follow the rules!
He is not here, he must be in his
office.
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Prohibition, deduction,obligation
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You mustn't forget certain things, such as:
- no "s" in the 3rd person singular
- in the interrogative form, we need "Inversion" (May I .....?)
- you do not need an auxiliary verb to write the interrogative or the negative forms
- Modal + verb in the infinitive (
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