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MODAL VERBS Bachillerato

Unit 4

INdEX

Golden Rules

Permission / request

Ability

Modal Perfects

Other Uses

Possibility

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Games

Advice / opinion

Obligation

Offer

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Golden rules

1. Golden Rules

Modal Verbs

1. Translation 2. Auxiliary Verbs 3. -S 4. To

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GOlden rules

Modal Verbs

Translation

-S 3rd person sing

To (infinitive)

Auxiliary verbs

Modal verbs in 3rd person singular don't require -s.

Modal verbs are followed by a verb in base form. Don't use "to".

They don't need auxiliary verbs as they can hold that function.

We don't translate modal verbs.

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ABility

Can / be able to ( +, -, ?)

COULD / BE ABLE TO (PAST) Could expresses a general ability. Ex: I could swim when I was five. Be able to refers to a specific ability in the past (manage to). Ex: I couldn't speak French but I was able to communicate with your French friend. COULD HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE (PAST) Opportunity or ability to do something in the past, but actually did not. Ex: I could have helped you with your homework, but I went to the park. WILL BE ABLE TO (FUTURE) It expresses general ability. Ex: She will be able to speak Russian in four years.

General ability - PRESENT

Be able to is more formal. Ex: I can swim fast. Ex: They are able to drive.

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possiBility

1. MUST expresses certainty in positive sentences (PRESENT) Ex: The lights are on, Paul must be at home. 2. MAY / MIGHT / COULD refer to present and future time in positive & negative sentences. Ex: I may start driving lessons next week. 3. CAN'T expresses impossibility or something hard to believe. It's always in negative sentences. Ex: He can't be Marcus, he is in Poland. 4. MUST + HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE: certainty in the past. Ex: These pictures of Paris are great. Your trip must have been very nice. 5. MAY / MIGHT / COULD + HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE: possibility in the past. To say that we are not sure what happened in the past. Ex: I can't find him at the arrivals area. He may/might/could have missed the plane. 6. CAN'T + HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE: certainty that something didn't happen. Ex: You can't have failed the test, you studied really hard.

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advice and opinion

ADVICE AND OPINION

Should, ought to, had better and must.

HAD BETTER: for affirmative and negative sentences. It is used for warning: there would be negative consequences if you don't follow the advice. Ex: I'd better finish the report before the boss comes. MUST: suggestions and recommendations. Only in possitive. Ex: You must try the new restaurant.

SHOULD is used in positive, negative and interrogative sentences. Ex: You should taste this hamburguer. OUGHT TO only in positive. Ex: You ought to wear warm clothes to go skiing.

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obligation

obligation

MUST, HAVE TO, NEED TO, MUSTN'T, DON'T HAVE TO/ DON'T NEED TO/ NEEDN'T, NEEDN'T + HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE

MUST expresses opinion and it is the written forma for obligation. PRESENT Ex: You must be silent in a library.

MUSTN'T is a prohibition in present. Ex: You mustn't smoke inside or near the school. DON'T HAVE TO / DON'T NEED TO / NEEDN'T to talk about lack of obligation or lack of necessity. Ex: He doesn't have to do the laundry today. NEEDN'T + HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE: lack of obligation but it is DONE. Ex: Thank you for coming! You needn't have bought me anything.

HAVE TO is a rule in any tense. Ex: We have to wake up at 6 in the morning. You have to buy a new washing machine. NEED TO is used when something is necessary to achieve a goal. Ex: You need to be at school by 9.

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oFFER

POLITE OFFER REQUEST SUGGESTION (I / we)

OFFER

SHALL

WOULD is used for a polite request, offer. It is also the past form of Will. To make a statement less certain. Ex: Would you open this jar for me, please? He said I would be the 1st one togo in. I would say we should take the bus. WOULDN'T is a refusal and to express impossibility. Ex: She wouldn't stop making noise until I got mad.

Ex: Shall I pick you up at 10?

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PERmission and request

MAy / could-WOULD-WILL / can

MAY (positive, negative and interrogative). Formal way with I or we. Ex: May we come in now, please? May I have some tea? COULD: polite request and permission. Ex: Could you be quiet, please? WOULD / WILL: polite request. Ex: Will you turn down the volume, please?

CAN: informal request (positive, negative and interrogative) Ex: Can I go to the toilet, please?

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modal perfects

Modal Perfects

Should / ought to + HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE Criticism and regret

WOULD + HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE Willingness that you couldn't do.

Ex: I would have helped you with your homework but my parents didn't let me go.

Ex: You should have told him the truth before he left. I ought to have studied harder for the test.

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other uses

Other uses

MAY Formal wishes and hopes.

SHOULDOUGHT TO Obligation and prediction

Ex: I really should call my dad. OBLIGATION We should arrive by five, there's no traffic. PREDICTION

Ex: May you have many happy years together.

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Practice with games and exercises

GAMES

Ability, possibility and obligation

Exercises Modal Perfects

Modal verbs of ability

Exercises

Modal verbs

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