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    The document summarizes the use of common English modal verbs including: - Can, may, be able to are used to express ability or capability in the present. - Can, may, could, might express possibility or certainty in the present. - May, might, might not have expressed possibility in the past. - Must and have to express obligation while should and shall provide advice. - Don't have to and must not express no obligation and prohibition, respectively.

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    MODALS

    Sergio Sampayo González


    INDEX
    • Ability/Capability

    • Certainty and Possibility (present)

    • Possibility (past)

    • Advice and Obligation

    • No obligation and Prohibition


    ABILITY/CAPABILITY
    Can vs be able to vs may (poder)
    Present
    • Can : informal * could
    • May : Formal * might

    Other tenses
    Be able to (ser capaz de [más específico] )
    • -Present/Past perfect
    • -Future
    • -Conditional
    CERTAINTY AND POSSIBILITY
    (PRESENT)

    • Can (Present) + VB (Puede ser)


    • May /Could/ Might / (Podría ser )

    Certainty

    • Must ( Tiene que ser)


    • Can`t (No puede ser)
    POSSIBILITY (PAST)

    • May /Might / Might +(not) + have + past participle


    ADVICE, OBLIGATION
    • Obligation

    Must (impersonal or oneself) (Tienes la obligación de…)

    Have to (when someone forces us) (Te ordeno que)


    *written always must

    Advice
    Should (informal) / Shall (really formal) (Te aconsejaría…)
    NO OBLIGATION, PROHIBITION

    No obligation
    Don’t have to… (no tienes la obligación de)

    Prohibition

    Must not… ( no tienes permiso de)


    WATCH OUT
    • MUST (tiene que) -/- Have to ( tener la obligación de)

    • Can /May significan lo mismo, salvo si queremos expresar posibilidad.


    Si estamos segurísimos de que no o queremos expresarlo en pasado.

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