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Question
Find at least three sentences in the story which have modal verbs.
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Solution
- Shylock should not shed even one drop of Antonio's blood.
- But what could he do?
- He should cut exactly one pound of flesh.
- Shylock realised that he could not do what the young man asked him.
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