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Modal Verbs

♦ Modals Used for ... ♦ Perfect Modals
♦ Progressive Forms of Modals
• Ability • Permission
♦ Tag Questions
• Possibility • Obligation
• Request • Lack of Obligation
• Advice • Prohibition
• Suggestions • Habitual Past
• Offers • Deduction
• Preferences • Expectation

Bu ünitede aşağıdaki konuları öğreneceksiniz:

• Modals for ability in sentences
- It is thought that bees can communicate with one another like humans.
• Modals for possibility in sentences
- The team may lose this match because of fatigue as they haven’t taken a rest after the semi-finals.
• Modals for requests in sentences
- Could you hold this box for me for a minute, please?
• Modals for advice in sentences
- You had better take a painkiller; or else, you will not be able to sleep tonight.
• Modals for suggestions in sentences
- Why don’t we take some responsibilities to be a better student?
• Modals for offers in sentences
- Would you like me to give you a lift as it is too late to walk?
• Modals for preferences in sentences
- I would prefer to take up new hobbies rather than do the same things all the time.
• Modals for permission in sentences
- You can buy whatever you like for your birthday.
• Modals for obligation in sentences
- We have to address the issues promptly; otherwise, the project will fail.
• Modals for lack of obligation in sentences
- You do not have to attend the meeting on your days off.
• Modals for prohibition in sentences
- You cannot enter the building without a valid ID card.
• Modals for habitual past in sentences
- I used to eat bananas every day as a snack; however, I cannot stand seeing them right now.
• Modals for deduction in sentences
- She can’t be younger than 30 years old as she has grown-up children.
• Modals for expectation in sentences
- The bride’s best friend is supposed to make a speech at the wedding.
• Perfect modals in sentences
- My sister doesn’t want to have breakfast; she must have eaten a lot last night.
• Tag questions in sentences
- I am right, aren’t I?

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