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    This document outlines different modal verbs in English and the meanings they convey. It categorizes modal verbs into ability, permission, advice, prohibition, possibility, obligation, and lack of obligation. For each category it lists the main modal verbs used and how they are used, for example "can" for ability in the present and "could" for ability in the past.

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    This document outlines different modal verbs in English and the meanings they convey. It categorizes modal verbs into ability, permission, advice, prohibition, possibility, obligation, and lack of obligation. For each category it lists the main modal verbs used and how they are used, for example "can" for ability in the present and "could" for ability in the past.

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    This document outlines different modal verbs in English and the meanings they convey. It categorizes modal verbs into ability, permission, advice, prohibition, possibility, obligation, and lack of obligation. For each category it lists the main modal verbs used and how they are used, for example "can" for ability in the present and "could" for ability in the past.

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    MODALS

    Ability Permission Advice


    Can (informal) Should
    Can (present) Ough to (formal)
    Could (Polite)
    Could (past)
    Prohibition
    Will (Neutral)
    Be able to (other tenses)
    Would (Polite)
    May (Polite) Mustn’t
    Possibility
    Obligation Lack of obligation Can’t
    May,might
    (weaker Don’t have to
    Must
    possibility) Needn’t
    Have to
    Must (sure)
    Can’t (impossible)

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