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1
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Modals weaker certainty

A

Could
May
Might

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2
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Modals impossibility

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Couldn’t

Can’t

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Difference between modals in the present/future and modals in the past

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In the past you add “have” after the modal (it doesn’t matter which, it’s with all of them)

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4
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Future continuous

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And event will be ongoing in the future

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5
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Future perfect

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Future event will be finished at some point

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Future in the past

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To talk in the present about a prediction made in the past

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7
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Formula of future continuous

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Will / be going to + be + present participle (ing)

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Formula of future perfect

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Will + have + past participle

“We will have found”

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Formula of future in the past

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Would / was/were going to + verb in base form

“Would be perfect”
“Dally said I was going to be an engineer”

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10
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Modals strong certainty

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Must

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