MODAL VERBS

MODAL VERBS

aplications
1. express ability, possibility, to talk about permits or obligations
features
1. are invariable
2. auxiliary verbs
3. they add meaning to the sentences
they are
1. shall
  1. use in
    1. offers
      1. Shall I help you with your guitar?
    2. suggestion
      1. Great, let’s meet later. Shall we say 5 p.m. then?
    3. options
      1. He shall be replaced with a new singer
  2. negative
    1. shall not
      1. You shall not forget to bring your ball of soccer
2. can
  1. affirmative
    1. used to express
      1. skill
        camilo can jump very high on the trampoline
      2. petittions
        ¿you can stop by me at lunch?
      3. ask permission
        I can look for you later and we'll talk about it
      4. offer o suggestion
        if you want we can do the job today, I have the day off
  2. negative
    1. can´t
      1. express
        impossibility or desability
        i can´t go out to the park today
  3. interrogative
    1. makes question
      1. ¿you can dance northern music ?
3. could
  1. past of can
    1. affirmative
      1. express
        petitions
        ¿Could you stop by lunch for me?
        offer o suggestion
        we could do the job today if you want
      2. less concrete possibility
        We could jog in the park or we could swim in the pool
4. might
  1. possibilities
    1. I heard that tomorrow you might be able to do a business
5. will
  1. form the future tense
    1. affirmative
      1. she will be the best psychologist in the municipality
    2. negative
      1. wont
        I won´t be complicit in that crime
    3. interrogative
      1. Will you want to run tomorrow?
6. would
  1. Will's most polite way
    1. affirmative
      1. she would like to walk the ecological path
    2. interrogative
      1. Would you be willing to go to the grade party with me?
    3. negative
      1. wouldn´t
        I wouldn't be willing to go to the party alone
7. should
  1. use for
    1. councils
      1. I think we should meet on Sundays to organize the library
  2. negative
    1. shouldn´t
8. must
  1. express
    1. need
      1. Camila must be operated urgently, she is very sick
    2. most accurate possibility
      1. Claudia has been working all month must be sold out
  2. negative
    1. mustn´t
      1. prohibition
        you mustn´t use your cell phone without your dad’s permission
9. may
  1. more educated
    1. affirmative
      1. express
        You can pour yourself a cup of coffee
      2. ask permission
        I may walk by your side today?
    2. negative may not
      1. I may not go to your fifteen year party

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