2.WRITE 2-2) USES OF THE FOLLOWING MODAL VERBS.
!) CAN !!) COULD !!!) OUGHT TO
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Explanation:
MODAL VERBS in English
Modal verbs are a type of auxiliary verb which express the mood of another verb.
They are used to express ideas such as: possibility, prediction, speculation, deduction and necessity.
Modal verbs have the following characteristics:
1) They do not have participle or infinitive forms
2) They do not take the ending -(e)s in the third-person singular.
3) They do not have a past form: He/she canted. He/she musted.
4) The negative is formed by the addition of not / n’t: He cannot/ He can’t. NOT He don’t can.
5) Questions are formed by inversion with the subject: Can you? NOT Do you can?
MODAL CONCEPT EXAMPLE
Can Ability:
Permission:
Offers: Julie can swim.
Can I come with you? ('May' is also used.)
Can I help you?
Could Possibility:
Past ability:
Permission:
Requests: That story could be true - who knows!
Charlie could swim when he was four years old.
Could I use your phone please?
Could you tell me the way to the station please?
May Possibility:
Permission: The President may come to our offices if the
meeting finishes before 5 pm.
May I borrow your dictionary?
Might Slight possibility :
Past form of 'may'
in reported speech: We might win a prize but I doubt it.
The President said he might come.
Must Obligation:
Logical deduction: Dogs must be kept on a lead.
You must be tired after your long journey.
Mustn't Prohibition: You mustn't tell Alex. It's a surprise!
Should Advice:
Logical deduction: You should take an umbrella in case it rains.
I've revised so I should be ready for the test.
Ought to Advice:
Logical deduction: You ought to write to your grandmother.
30 € ought to be enough for the taxi.
Shall Future tense auxiliary:
Offers/suggestions
with ''I' and 'we': I shall be in London on Monday (or I'll be ...).
Shall I order a taxi?
Shall we begin the meeting now?
Will Future tense auxiliary:
Invitations/offers: The ticket will cost about 50€.
Will you join us for coffee? Won't you come in?
Explanation:
- "Can" is one of the most commonly used modal verbs in English. It can be used to express ability or opportunity, to request or offer permission, and to show possibility or impossibility.
Examples: I can ride a horse.
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2.Could is the past tense of can, but it also has uses apart from that--and that is where the confusion lies. When could is used as the past tense of can, it refers to an ability that a person generally had in the past or to something that was generally possible in the past
Examples:i)"When I was younger, I could run for miles,"
ii) "It used to be you could buy lunch for a dollar.".
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3.Ought is usually followed by 'to' and an infinitive