Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Modal Verbs
- Prohibition
- MUSTN'T (MUST NOT)
- Examples: * You MUST NOT park
your car here. It is forbidden.
- Permission
- Asking for Permission
- Examples: * Are we ALLOWED TO eat here?
* COULD I use your phone, please? * Can I
sit here, or is the seat taken?
- Giving / Refusing Permission
- Examples: * You are ALLOWED TO park here.
* You COULD take a day off work. * Yes, you
CAN go to that party, if you want.
- CAN - COULD - BE ALLOWED TO
- Making Requests / Offers
- WOULD - COULD - CAN
Anmerkungen:
- Examples:
* Would you like to come to the party with me?
* Could you please close the door?
* Can you send these letters for me?
- Examples: * WOULD you like to come to the party with me? *
COULD you please close the door? * CAN you send these
letters for me?
- Obligation / Necessity
- Absence of necessity
- Examples: * You DON'T HAVE TO wash the
dishes; I'll do it. * You DON'T NEED TO
remind me of this, I remember.
- DON'T HAVE TO - DON'T NEED TO
- MUST - HAVE TO - NEED TO
- Examples: * You MUST study harder.
* We have to hand in an assignment
next Friday. * I need to practice
Tenses.
- Ability
- Absence of ability
- CAN'T - COULDN'T - NOT BE ABLE TO
- Examples: * I CAN'T run a marathon, I'm not prepared. *
My kids COULDN'T ride bikes when they were little. * She
has NOT been ABLE TO walk since the accident.
- CAN - COULD - BE ABLE TO
- Examples: * I CAN row fairly well.
* He COULD read at the age of 3.
* The team was ABLE TO
complete the taks at a record
time!
- Giving Advice / Making Suggestions
- SHOULD - SHOULDN'T
- Examples: * You SHOULD see a doctor.
* You SHOULDN'T leave for tomorrow
what you can do today.
- Possibility
- CAN - MAY - MIGHT
- Examples: * I CAN be hot next week. *
I MAY go to Hawaii next summer. *
They MIGHT return tomorrow, but I'm
not sure.