Professional Documents
Culture Documents
A few examples:
Practice:
1- Underline the modal verb in each of the sentences below. What is their meaning in each context?
Ability Possibility/ Asking Prohibition Polite Suggestion/ Obligation Moral Necessity Offering A Daring Logical
probability for/ giving requests invitation/ (self- obligation (or not) assistance past attitude deduction
Permission imposed habit ( aff. or
advice or not) neg.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
answer key :2, 4, 3/5, 2, 6, 10, 2, 9, 5, 5, 2, 6, 11, 13, 4, 13, 7, 8, 11, 12, 7, 7, 12, 13, 2/3, 13