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    The document discusses modal verbs and their meanings and uses in sentences. It lists the modal verbs can, may, must, will, should, and would and defines their core meanings as ability, probability, obligation, future, advice, and unreal situations/wish/past habit respectively. It provides examples of how each modal verb is used in sentences with a person and verb complement, and also how they are used with "not" in negative sentences.

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    The document discusses modal verbs and their meanings and uses in sentences. It lists the modal verbs can, may, must, will, should, and would and defines their core meanings as ability, probability, obligation, future, advice, and unreal situations/wish/past habit respectively. It provides examples of how each modal verb is used in sentences with a person and verb complement, and also how they are used with "not" in negative sentences.

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    Armando Josué Cepeda Vaquera
    The document discusses modal verbs and their meanings and uses in sentences. It lists the modal verbs can, may, must, will, should, and would and defines their core meanings as ability, probability, obligation, future, advice, and unreal situations/wish/past habit respectively. It provides examples of how each modal verb is used in sentences with a person and verb complement, and also how they are used with "not" in negative sentences.

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    MODAL VERBS

    ARMANDO JOSUÉ CEPEDA VAQUERA


    MODALS
    CAN Ability

    MAY Probability, Supposition

    MUST Onligation

    WILL Future

    SHOULD Advice, Suggestion

    WOULD Unreal situations, Wish, habit of the past


    PERSON + MODAL + VERB + COMPLEMENT

    You CAN eat tacos. Ability


    You MUST eat tacos. Obligation
    You MAY eat tacos. Posibility
    You WILL eat tacos. Future
    You SHOULD eat tacos. Advice
    You WOULD eat tacos. Suposition
    PERSON + MODAL NOT + VERB + COMPLEMENT

     CANNOT = CAN’T
     MAY NOT
     MUST NOT = MUSTN’T
     WILL NOT = WON’T
     SHOULD NOT = SHOULDN’T
     WOULD NOT = WOULDN’T

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