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Question
The table below provides you with a list of modals that are used to express necessity and permission.
| Necessity/obligation | Permission |
|
Positive must obeying have to authority need to right thing ought to to do should |
Positive can (less formal) may (more formal) |
|
Negative must not cannot ought not to |
Negative need not do not have to |
Grammar/Language
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Solution
| Necessity/Obligation | Permission |
|---|---|
| Positive | Positive |
| must – obeying authority | can – less formal |
| have to – obligation | may – more formal |
| need to – necessity | |
| ought to – right thing to do | |
| should – right thing to do | |
| Negative | Negative |
| must not | need not |
| cannot | do not have to |
| ought not to |
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