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modal verbs
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- 1CanAbility, Doubt, Permission, request
- can I borrow your pen? - 2Couldpast ability, past permission, probability, request
-excuse me, could you open the door for me? - 3maypermission, if not prohibition, supposition with doubt
-may I reserve a table for 7 pm? - 4mightprobability
-I can`t find the compass, I might have dropped it earlier - 5willwish, desire, will, confidence, talking about the future
- you will be inside of your house because quarantine - 6wouldrequest, a habit of the past, wish as "to like", offer
- would you like a slide of pizza? - 7mustobligation, firm necessity, logical conclusion, probability
-you must rest, or your leg won't heal - 8have toforced circumstances, unwillingness
- you have to stop eating candies for taking care of your teeth - 9shouldnecessity, advice, blame, recommendation, reproach, regret
-you should not run a marathon - 10ought tomoral duty, formal request, insistent advice, strict recommendation
- She ought to do something about her bad cough. - 11neednecessary
-I need my ball to play soccer - 12used torepeated action in the past
-I used to drink coffee every morning but now I drink tea - 13can'tan ability that can't be realized
- I can´t hear because de music is too loud - 14couldn'tthe past ability, past permission, probability that couldn't be realized
-He couldn't arrive at the airport and lost his fly - 15mustn'tit's prohibited, not allowed, is important that you don't do something
- you mustn't smoke any kind of cigarettes - 16don't have tothere is no obligation, you are not required to do something
- you don't have to drive drunk - 17shouldn'ta recommendation that you need to do, advice
-you shouldn't come - 18wouldn'tsomething that doesn't like you
-I wouldn't like to be a fish - 19won'tsomething that doesn't happen in the future
-my crush and I won't be partners - 20may notsomething that doesn't like them
- he may not like the cake I made for him - 21needn´tyou don't need it, is not necessary
- she needn't her make up to be beautiful - 22didn't use toaction in the past
- I didn't use to diving in the pool - 23might not / mightn'tprovability
- - 24shallintention, supposition
- 25ought not toinsistence, formal advice
-you ought to eat junk food, it's bad for your health - 26shall not/ shan'tsuggestions, offers, instructions
- you shan't kiss your girlfriend in front of her parents
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- Flashcards on modal verbs, created by alejandro Guerrero on 27/05/2020.
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