PAST MODALS OF POSSIBILITY/PROBABILITY

Video clip from the movie Premonition, starring Sandra Bullock

1. Watch the video and guess what might have happened to the
characters. Check the options you believe are possible
explanations for the characters current situation.

( ) Jen took too many tranquilizers the previous night.

( ) Her daughter had a domestic accident.

( ) Jen hurt her daughter.

( ) Jens daughter hurt herself.

( ) Jens husband, Jim, didnt die.

( ) Jim died in a car accident.

( ) Jen hit her head on the floor and cant remember anything.

( ) One of the children was attacked by a mad dog.

2. Now rewrite the above sentences using past modal verbs to

express probability/ possibility/ impossibility.

Eg. Jen might have taken too many tranquilizers the previous
night.