1. Os modal verbs so verbos auxiliares que se utilizam para atribuir um significado particular ao verbo.

So os seguintes:

Modal Verb

Functions (modos de utilizao)

Expresses (Exprime):
ability (capacidade natural ou

Examples

She can play the guitar. Can I borrow your pencil? Can I help you? You can leave earlier.

Can

aprendida); request (pedido - informal); offer (oferta); permission (permisso - informal). Expresses (Exprime):
ability (capacidade natural ou

I could swim when I was five. Could I use your phone? Could you open the window?

Could

aprendida - no passado) permission (pedir permisso - mais formal) request (pedir um favor - mais formal) Expresses (Exprime):

May

permission (permisso - forma

You may go outside. May I open the window, please? It may rain tomorrow.

educada); request (pedido - forma educada); probability (probabilidade). Expresses (Exprime):

Must

obligation (obrigao); necessity (necessidade).

You must obey the rules. I must stay at home because its raining.

Mustnt

Expresses (Exprime):
prohibition (proibio).

You mustnt speak.

Expresses (Exprime):

Should

advice (conselhos), moral duty (dever moral).

You should study more. We should protect the environment.

Expresses (Exprime):

Would

offer (oferta); invitation (convite).

Would you like some tea? Would you like to go to the cinema?

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2. Os modal verbs no tm s na 3 pessoa She can swim very well. 3. As formas interrogativa e negativa no so feitas com to do May I go to the board? You must not go out. 4. Depois dos modal verbs, utiliza-se o infinitive sem to modal verb + infinitive (sem to) 5. No verbo can, a negativa pode fazer-se da seguinte forma: cant ou cannot - repara que nunca se escreve can not (separado)

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