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Question
Study the different use of ‘could’. Identify what it indicate.
Abhi could perform well in his school days.
Options
suggestion
past ability
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Solution
Abhi could perform well in his school days. - past ability
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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. |
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can’t
Write the shortened form of the following.
You are
Study the different use of ‘could’. Identify what it indicate.
Lack of rain could cause draught.
Supply short answer (Pronoun + Auxiliary Verb).
Have you cut off your hair?
Supply short answer (Pronoun + Auxiliary Verb).
Isn’t it a dandy?
Pick out the Modal Auxiliary and state its function:
- He would borrow one week, lend the next.
- I knew, I could not afford caviar.
Use the correct modal auxiliary with the help of the clue given in bracket and fill in the blank.
My grandmother is eighty-five, but she ______ still read and write without glasses. (Ability)
______ we afford to neglect children? Think Twice!!
