Structure
Structure: ‘Modals 7’
Modals and prohibition From the diagram, we can see that to talk about prohibition there are five options, depending on the situation. ‘Mustn’t’ is the strongest…
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Structure
Structure: ‘Modals 6’
Modals and permission Looking at our diagram we can see that to ask for permission in the present or future we have four options; can, could,…
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Structure: ‘Modals 5’
Time references for modal verbs Adding to what we saw previously, we look at the time reference for our modal verbs in each of their uses.…
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Structure: ‘Usually fly, used to fly, used to flying’
This time in our structure help we talk about the different between three structures with similar forms but very different meanings, ‘usually fly, used to fly,…
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Structure: ‘What was it like?’
This time in our structure help we talk about the preposition ‘like’ and in particular the question; what was it like? Students sometimes confuse the verb…
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Structure: ‘Modals 4’
Modals related to ability, permission, prohibition and obligation We talked previously about how our modal verbs related to probability. Next we look at specific meanings to…