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Question
Insert the appropriate Modal Auxiliary as directed.
(a) You ____ to improve your handwriting (necessity).
(b) There ______ be about fifty chocolates
in that box. (possibility)
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Solution
(i) You need to improve your handwriting.
(ii) There could be about fifty chocolates in that box.
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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 |
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My uncle |
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Primary Auxiliary Verbs are ‘be’, ‘have’, and ‘do’ which occur most commonly and can also be used as a main verb in a clause.
Go through the sentences given below and say whether the verbs are the main verbs or primary auxiliary verbs.
I had learnt from my childhood that money did not mean everything in life.___
Expand the following into their full form.
here’s ______________.
Expand the following into their full form.
can’t ______________.
Write the shortened form of the following.
are not ___________.
Write the shortened form of the following.
ought not _____________.
Study the different use of ‘could’. Identify what it indicate.
Abhi could perform well in his school days.
Study the different use of ‘could’. Identify what it indicate.
We could go on an excursion, if we didn’t have exam.
Supply short answer (Pronoun + Auxiliary Verb).
Don’t you like me?
______ we afford to neglect children? Think Twice!!
