MODALS Flashcards
Can + infinitive
I can intubate
I cant perform a surgery
can you tell me the time
Habilidad
Pedido
Posibilidad
Must
Mustn’t
she must be forty
Obligation / Supposition
Prohibition
Ella debería tener cuarentena
May + Infinitive
May I came in
This may be intoxication
Permiso
Posibilidad
Might + Infinitive
Podria , muy remoto
Should + infinitive
You shouldn’t
Debería (consejo)
Could + infinitive
Amigable requerimiento
Capacidad (Hipotético, posible mente pueda o no)
Would + infinite
I would give corticoides
I would wait
Hipotetico
Yo le daria corticoides
Yo esperaria
Needn’t + infinitvo
he needn’t be intubate
No necesario
must + have + participle
He must have forgotten
He must have over slept
Obligacion o supposition
El lo ha debido olvidar
can´t + have + participle
he cant have made this mistake
the patient cant have woken up, because….
no es posible
No es posible que haya cometido ese error
may + have + participle
She may have had a problem
he may have confuse the dose
Possibility
el paciente puede haber tenido una recaída
might + have
he might have fallen
she might have told us, she was ill
Remote possibility
Reproach
el se podría haber caído.
Ella podria haberme dicho,
should + have
The patient should have told us, he had HIV.
Obligation que no se cumplió
could + have
you could have done it alone
you could have written the report
Capacidad de algo que no se hizo
Podrias haber escrito el reporte.
would + have
I would have done the same
I would have given antibiotics, since beginning
Hubiera, o habría
