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MODAL VERBS
MR. JAVIER NUÑEZ & MR. ALEIX TORRAS
INDEX
WHAT ARE MODAL VERBS?
HOW ARE THEY DIFFERENT FROM USUAL
VERBS?
PRINCIPAL MODAL VERBS
SEMI-MODALS
KINDS OF MODAL VERBS
WHAT ARE MODAL
VERBS?
AN AUXILIARY VERBS CLASS USED TO
EXPRESS MODALITY
HOW ARE THEY DIFFERENT
FROM USUAL VERBS?
THEY DON’T HAVE PARTICIPLE NOR INFINITIVE FORMS
THEY DON’T HAVE THE -S/-ES ENDING IN THE 3RD PERSON SINGULAR
YOU USE NOT TO MAKE A MODAL VERB NEGATIVE
MANY MODAL VERBS CAN NOT BE USED IN PAST OR FUTURE TENSES
THEY MAKE QUESTIONS BY INVERSION
HE CAN PLAY
CAN HE PLAY?
HE PLAYS SOCCER
DOES HE PLAY SOCCER?
THEY ARE FOLLOWED DIRECTLY BY AN INFINITIVE VERB
PRINCIPAL MODAL
VERBS
CAN
SHALL
COULD
SHOULD
MAY
WILL
MIGHT
WOULD
MUST
USED TO
SEMI-MODALS
OUGHT
HAD BETTER
DARE
NEED
HAVE
KINDS OF MODAL
VERBS
PROBABILITY
- MUST BE
- IT MUST BE RAINING
- COULD
- HE COULD HAVE GONE TO THE CINEMA YESTERDAY
- CAN NOT
- THIS BILL CAN’T BE RIGHT, 20€ IT’S TOO MUCH!
- MAY/MIGHT
- WE MAY/MIGHT GO TO THE PARTY
KINDS OF MODAL
VERBS
PERMISSION
- CAN/COULD
- COULD I LEAVE EARLY TODAY?
- CAN WE SWIM IN THE LAKE?
- MAY
- MAY I GO TO THE BATHROOM?
- SHALL
- SHALL I PASS?
KINDS OF MODAL
VERBS
ABILITY
- CAN
- WE CAN TEACH MODAL VERBS TO THE CLASS
- COULD
- I COULD RUN 100 M IN 5 SECONDS AT MY BEST
TIMES
KINDS OF MODAL
VERBS
HABITS
- WILL
- JORDI WILL ALWAYS BE LATE!
- WOULD
- 7 YEARS AGO, I WOULD SPEAK CHINESE
- USED TO
- WHEN I WAS 5 I USED TO PLAY “PICA-PARET”
KINDS OF MODAL
VERBS
OBLIGATION, ADVICE AND NECESSITY
- MUST
- YOU MUST GO TO SCHOOL
- HAVE
- YOU HAVE TO DO YOUR HOMEWORK
- SHALL
- YOU SHALL NOT PASS!
- SHOULD/OUGHT
- YOU SHOULD SCREAM IF YOU FEEL STRESSED
- HE OUGHT TO TELL THAT TO THE TEACHER
- DARE
- DARE HE STUDY?
- NEED TO
- YOU NEED TO STUDY IF YOU DON’T WANT TO FAIL
*TO MAKE THE NEGATIVE FORMS WE USE NOT
KINDS OF MODAL
VERBS
CERTAINTY
- MUST
- HE MUST BE IN A CAR RUSH
- CAN’T/COULDN’T
- THAT CAN’T/COULDN’T BE TRUE