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Modals To Express Degrees of Certainty: Nosy Neighbors
Modals To Express Degrees of Certainty: Nosy Neighbors
Degrees of Certainty
Nosy Neighbors
Focus on Grammar 5
Part II, Unit 6
By Ruth Luman, Gabriele Steiner, and BJ Wells
Copyright © 2006. Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.
Nosy
Nosy Neighbors
Neighbors 11
Well, they
I haven’t couldn’t have
seen the gone on
Chins for a vacation. The
They may Or they
month. dog is still there.
have been might be
abducted
Hmmm. by
They staying with
aliens.
must have their son for a
Then
while.they
moved to an
should be
exotic island.
very happy.
Speculating
Speculating about
about the
the Present
Present
Modals speculating about the present are
followed by a base form verb.
past
participle
Degree of Certainty
certain near near less
certainty impossibility certain