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Question
Expand the following into its full form.
can’t
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Solution
can not
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Insert the appropriate Modal Auxiliary as directed.
(a) You ____ to improve your handwriting (necessity).
(b) There ______ be about fifty chocolates
in that box. (possibility)
From the table below, make as many correct sentences as you can using would and/or used to, as appropriate. (Hint: First decide whether the words in italics show an action, or a state or situation, in the past.) Then add two or three sentences of your own to it.
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Emperor Akbar |
would used to |
be found of musical evenings. |
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Every evening we |
take long walks on the beach |
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Fifty years ago, very few people |
own cars. |
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Till the 1980s, Shanghai |
have very dirty streets. |
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My uncle |
spend his holidays by the sea. |
I must tell the truth.
(Pick out the modal auxiliary verb and state its function)
Write the shortened form of the following.
need not
Study the different uses of ‘could’. Identify what it indicates.
Instead of playing computer games you could play real games with friends. (past ability/suggestion)
Study the different uses of ‘could’. Identify what it indicates.
Could I use your computer for surfing net? (possibility/request)
Study the different uses of ‘could’. Identify what it indicates.
We could go on an excursion, if we didn’t have exam. (suggestion/condition)
Rewrite the sentence as a simple sentence using a present participle:
She had read a book of mine and had written to me about it.
Pick out the modal auxiliary and state its function:
Could I use your computer for surfing net ?
Use the correct modal auxiliary with the help of the clue given in bracket and fill in the blank.
You _______ not lose any more weight. You are already slim. (Necessity)
