Modals

Modals

Review

Ability

• Present: can/can't/cannot

• Past: could/could not/couldn't

Possibility

• can

• could

• may

• might

Permission

• can

• may (formal)

Suggestion

• could (present)

• could have (past)

Advice

• should (present)

• should have (past)

Necessity or Obligation

• must

• have to / has to

• had to (past)

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct meaning of the underlined modal. If you earn more money than you need, you should be as generous as possible with the poor.

• advice

• obligation

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct meaning of the underlined modal. Before I injured my ankle, I could easily run for two hours.

• ability

• advice

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct meaning of the underlined modal. She’ll give you her opinion if you ask, but you may not like what she tells you.

• permission

• possibility

Multiple Choice

Choose the correct meaning of the underlined modal. I really want to go see her backstage after the show, but I don’t know if we can.

• permission

• suggestion

Multiple Choice

Choose the modal that best expresses the intended meaning. Present ability: Anyone ____________ see that this is a fake review.

• can

• will

Multiple Choice

Choose the modal that best expresses the intended meaning.

Possibility: If you try hard enough, you ______________make the team.

• have to

• might

Multiple Choice

Choose the modal that best expresses the intended meaning. Permission: You ___________ talk to your boss as if he were your friend.

• cannot

• must not

Multiple Choice

Choose the modal that best expresses the intended meaning. Past habit: This _______________ be fun, but not anymore.

• had to

• used to