(Usados en la formación de los tiempos verbales, interrogativas, negativas,…)

(Usados para la expresión de diferentes modos de comunicación)

  Van siempre seguidos de un infinitivo sin “TO”

Can I go to the toilet?

 No tienen –s en la 3ª persona del singular.

My sister can speak 4 languages: Galician, Portuguese, Dutch and Spanish.

 No precisan de otro tipo de auxiliares para la formación de preguntas,

negativas, respuestas breves, question tags,…
- “There´s someone at the door”

- “It may be Sarah”

- “It might be Sarah”
- “It could be Sarah”
“I can´t open this bottle”
 [ Quien habla, manda ]

[ Quien habla, no manda ]

A DENTIST TO HIS PATIENT:“You must clean your teeth 3 times a day”

A TEACHER TO HIS STUDENTS:“You must do every activity on page 14”

A STUDENT TO HIS CLASSMATE:“You have to do every activity on page 14”
“You shouldn´t tell lies”

“What should I do ?” .- I think you should give it back .”

Informal > Formal > Muy Formal > Inseguridad

 Informal > Formal

“Could I have the bill, please?”. → IN A RESTAURANT

“May I have some more coffee, please?”.

Informal > Formal

Modals and Related Expressions
1. Ted's flight from Amsterdam took more than 11 hours. He is exhausted after
such a long flight. He prefer to stay in tonight and get some rest.
[ POSSIBILITY]
2. When you have a small child in the house, you leave small objects lying
around. [ADVICE]
3. A: you hold your breath for more than a minute? B: No, I can't.
[ABILITY] 4. Please make sure to water my plants while I am gone. If they don't get
enough water, they die. [POSSIBILITY]
5. I speak Arabic fluently when I was a child and we lived in Egypt. [ABILITY]
6. The teacher said the book isn´t optional, so we read it.
[OBLIGATION]
7 . You take your umbrella along with you today. The weatherman on the news
said there's a storm north of here and it will rain later on this afternoon. [ADVICE ]
8 . A: I borrow your lighter for a minute? B: Sure, no problem. Actually, you
keep it if you want to. I've given up smoking. [PERMISSION]
9 . I´m absolutely afraid. you give me your hand please? [REQUEST]
10 . I´m in love with him. I ring him up? .- I think you
because he´s too jealous. [ADVICE]