MODALS

Structure: MODAL + INFINITIVE VERB

Example: I can speak three languages)
(Sé parlar tres idiomes)

DEDUCTION:
ABILITY:
- Can’t
- Can
- Must
- Be able to
ADVICE:
- Could (past ability)
- Should
REQUEST / PERMISION:
- Ought to
- Can
NECESSITY / OBLIGATION:
- May (polite)
- Need to
- Might (polite)
- Have to
POSSIBILITY:
- Must
- Can
LACK OF NECESSITY / LACK OF OBLIGATION:
- Be able to
- Don’t have to
- Could
- Don’t need to
- May
- Needn’t
- Might
INABILITY:
- Can’t
PROHIBITION:
- Can’t
- Mustn’t