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    This document summarizes the uses and meanings of common English modal verbs including: can, could, be able to, must, have to, may, might, should, and ought to. It provides the modal verb in English, its equivalent in Spanish, and examples showing how each modal verb is used in the present, past, and other verb tenses to indicate ability, possibility, obligation, permission, recommendation and lack of necessity.

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    This document summarizes the uses and meanings of common English modal verbs including: can, could, be able to, must, have to, may, might, should, and ought to. It provides the modal verb in English, its equivalent in Spanish, and examples showing how each modal verb is used in the present, past, and other verb tenses to indicate ability, possibility, obligation, permission, recommendation and lack of necessity.

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    MODALS

    CAN Ability, possibility and request


    = PODER, PRESENT
    Julie can swim
    SABER
    Can I come with you?

    COULD Past ability, possibility


    = PODÍA, PUDE
    PAST
    Julie could swim when she was young
    Could I use your phone?

    BE ABLE TO REST OF THE


    VERBAL
    Julie will be able to swim in the future TENSES

    MUST Obligation, prohibition, necesity


    = DEBER
    You must have an identity proof to
    enter the room PRESENT

    MUSTN'T = FORBIDDEN
    You mustn't smoke here

    HAVE TO = TENER QUE

    I had to submit the exercise


    Tuve que subir el ejericcio REST OF THE

    DON'T HAVE TO = NO TENER QUE


    (LACK OF
    VERBAL
    TENSES
    needn't NECESSITY

    I don't have to go there


    No tengo por qué ir allí
    MAY
    Possibility, permission
    Muchas posibilidades
    = Puede que
    He may come to our place
    May I borrow your pen?

    MIGHT Possibility
    Pocas posibilidades
    = Puede que
    We might win the trophy, but I doubt

    SHOULD Recommendation, advice


    INFORMAL
    He should give her a call

    OUGHT TO Recommendation, advice


    FORMAL
    She ought to be generous

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