Modals Flashcards

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Modal verbs

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-can/could,will/would,shall/should,may/might,must,ought to,used to.

-Acts only as auxiliary verb

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Forms of modal verb

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-Modals+v1
-Modals+be+v3(passive voice)
-Modals+have+v3(passive voice)
-Modals+be+v4
-Modals+have+v4

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Can/could

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Ability,possibility,permission,request

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Will/would

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Certainty,request or orders,futurity,habits,conditions

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Shall/should

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Moral and formal obligation,futurity and past form of shall,offer and belief

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Will/shall

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Interrogative sentences:
Shall- first person(I,We)
Will- second person,third person(You,he,she,it,they)

-command,compulsion,determination,promise,threat

-shall in formal and official language

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Would/should

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Would- past habit only action verb and not stative verb

Used to- both action and stative verb

Should- as conjunction in condotional clause, had better+ v1 (no had better+to+v1)

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May/might

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Possibility,permission,request

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Semi modals

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Need,dare

-ve and question sentence no infinitive(need/dare+not/sub+mv)

  • need,dare as main verb - need/dare+to+v1(need/dare+infinitive)
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