advantage to) Obligation (be obliged to) Volition Ability (be able to) Inclination (be willing to) Promise/Intention (be going to) 1 1. Modality 1.1 Modality: excercise 4. Clause combining 2 Practice • Say whether the modal verbs used in the following sentences express likelihood (possibility‚ probability‚ certainty)‚ requirement (permission‚ advice‚ obligation) or volition (ability‚ inclination‚ promise‚ intention): 1. You will feel better after this medicine 2.
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Indicate a person who has had a significant influence on you‚ and describe that influence. When you are a child‚ you learn quickly to distinguish the sounds of your parents’ footsteps walking through the halls of your house. Whether it’s the sound of your mom’s heels clicking down hardwood floors around 5 p.m. or the sound of your dad’s work boots clanging down the stairs‚ these sounds are as familiar as the clothes you wear or your favorite toy when you are a child. For me‚ it was always a
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English Grammar Modal Auxiliary Verbs Modal Auxiliary Verbs Modal auxiliary verbs are used with a main verb to show‚ mood and ideas such as ability‚ possibility and permission. Modal Auxiliary Verbs can will must shall may could would ought to should might Modal Auxiliary Verbs Can: Can is used 1) to express ability: Ryan can speak French but he cannot speak German. Superman can do things that ordinary people can’t. 2) to express request: Can you help Sue? Can I offer you something
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PAPER Modal Verbs CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ………………………..………………………………….......... 3 CHAPTER ONE. CATEGORY OF MODALITY AND MEANS OF ITS EXPRESSION …………...…………………………...…......4 1.1. Notion of modality and history of its study ……….…….………….4 1.2. Modal verbs as means of expressing modality………………...........6 Conclusions to Chapter One ………………………………………………........12 CHAPTER TWO. LEXICO-GRAMMATICAL MEANS OF EXRESSING MODALITY …………………………………………...…..13 2.1. Modal verbs as means
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TThe greatest person in my life Laying as a baby in my crib I could hear everything from him. All the crying from my mom and the loud music of "Van Halen" in the next room. he was always gone and often came home late at night screaming and saying bizarre things. This man was my father. The person I was suppose to look up to and rely on but all he ever did was drugs and cheat. He lived a hard life and was screwing up every day. Years after my mom and dad split up that’s when I get the letter. This
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Modal verbs A modal verb is a verb‚ for example ‘can’‚ ‘might’‚ or ‘must’ that is used before another verb to show that something is possible‚ necessary‚ etc. Here are some of the uses and meanings of modal verbs. For a more detailed description‚ use a good grammar book. Here are the main modal verbs of English: can could may might must ought shall will would Expressing degrees of certainty In the speaker’s opinion‚ John has the car: The car’s not here – John must have taken it. The speaker
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Choose the right modal verb. 1. There is plenty of tomatoes in the fridge. You __________ buy any. 2. It’s a hospital. You __________ smoke. 3. He had been working for more than 11 hours. He __________ be tired after such hard work. He _________ prefer to get some rest. 4. I __________ speak Arabic fluently when I was a child and lived in Morocco. But after we moved back to Canada‚ I had very little exposure to the language and forgot almost everything I knew as a child. Now‚ I _________ just
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Complete the sentences using the words listed in the box below‚ then click the "Check" button to check your answers. Don’t forget to capitalize when necessary. Some gaps may have more than one correct answer. can could have to must might should ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form 1. Ted’s flight from Amsterdam took more than 11 hours. He be exhausted after such a long flight. He prefer to stay in tonight and get some rest. 2. If you want to get
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04 IBERICA 19.qxp 22/3/10 17:21 Página 77 A contrastive analysis of the use of modal verbs in the expression of epistemic stance in Business Management research articles in English and Spanish1 Ignacio Vázquez Orta Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain) ivazquez@unizar.es Abstract In the present paper an intercultural quantitative and qualitative analysis of the use of modal verbs as epistemic stance markers in SERAC (Spanish-English Research Article Corpus)‚ a corpus of research
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The Greatest Sorrow: Loss of Family A dynamic character changes over the course of the story. The change undertaken by such a character is usually very influential on the final resolution. Most often the event that creates this change is very serious in nature‚ such as loss in one’s family. Lyman Baker mentioned in his article that the curiosity towards a “change in identity” have been very intense in this century. In Wangerin’s book‚ The Book of Sorrows‚ death surrounds almost all of the characters
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