Structure
Structure: ‘Modals 8’
Modals and obligation In the diagram below we can see that both should and must can be used to talk about present or future obligations. Again,…
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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…
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,…
Structure
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.…
Structure
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…
Structure
Structure: ‘Modals 3’
Modals and probability We previously said that all modals express a level of probability. This week we look at what that level of probability is related…
