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    The document discusses modals used to refer to past actions. It provides examples of using modal verbs like "must have", "should have", and "may have" followed by the past participle form of other verbs to talk about possible or probable past events or situations. The document then provides a passage about Easter Island and uses modals to speculate about how the original inhabitants may have discovered and settled the island, used up its resources, created its famous statues, and more. The modals help discuss what could have or must have happened in Easter Island's past without definite knowledge.

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    The document discusses modals used to refer to past actions. It provides examples of using modal verbs like "must have", "should have", and "may have" followed by the past participle form of other verbs to talk about possible or probable past events or situations. The document then provides a passage about Easter Island and uses modals to speculate about how the original inhabitants may have discovered and settled the island, used up its resources, created its famous statues, and more. The modals help discuss what could have or must have happened in Easter Island's past without definite knowledge.

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    Paulo Alexandre De Souza Silva
    The document discusses modals used to refer to past actions. It provides examples of using modal verbs like "must have", "should have", and "may have" followed by the past participle form of other verbs to talk about possible or probable past events or situations. The document then provides a passage about Easter Island and uses modals to speculate about how the original inhabitants may have discovered and settled the island, used up its resources, created its famous statues, and more. The modals help discuss what could have or must have happened in Easter Island's past without definite knowledge.

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    Modals in the Past

    They are modals referred to actions that happened in the past.

    MODAL + HAVE + verb in past participle

    It must have been a difficult decision


    They should have invited her to their wedding

    Complete the spaces in the text by using one of the phrases below:

    may have landed


    might have done this
    must have used up all the food
    can’t have been easy
    may have discovered the island
    could have been part
    might have been gods

    EASTER ISLAND

    Easter Island, 3,000 km off the coast of Chile in the Pacific Ocean is very far from land. Today, it is a

    small island with few people or trees, but at one time a lot of people lived there. Scientists believe

    that the original inhabitants (may have discovered the island) by accident. Around 100 people (may

    have landed) on the western coast of the island. But then the number of inhabitants increased too

    quickly. Scientists agree that the inhabitants (must have used up all the food) on the island and

    finally all died. The Easter Island statues are famous, but nobody knows why they are there or why

    there are so many. The statues (might have been gods), or Easter Island (could have been part) of a

    much bigger island. The statues are very large and heavy, so they (can’t have been easy) to move.

    Scientists still do not know how the inhabitants (might have done this).

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