Modals Flashcards
Modal verbs
-can/could,will/would,shall/should,may/might,must,ought to,used to.
-Acts only as auxiliary verb
Forms of modal verb
-Modals+v1
-Modals+be+v3(passive voice)
-Modals+have+v3(passive voice)
-Modals+be+v4
-Modals+have+v4
Can/could
Ability,possibility,permission,request
Will/would
Certainty,request or orders,futurity,habits,conditions
Shall/should
Moral and formal obligation,futurity and past form of shall,offer and belief
Will/shall
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
Would/should
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)
May/might
Possibility,permission,request
Semi modals
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)