MODAL VERBS

MR. JAVIER NUÑEZ & MR. ALEIX TORRAS

INDEX

WHAT ARE MODAL VERBS?

HOW ARE THEY DIFFERENT FROM USUAL VERBS?

PRINCIPAL MODAL VERBS

SEMI-MODALS

KINDS OF MODAL VERBS

WHAT ARE MODAL VERBS?

AN AUXILIARY VERBS CLASS USED TO EXPRESS MODALITY

HOW ARE THEY DIFFERENT FROM USUAL VERBS?

THEY DON’T HAVE PARTICIPLE NOR INFINITIVE FORMS

THEY DON’T HAVE THE -S/-ES ENDING IN THE 3RD PERSON SINGULAR

YOU USE NOT TO MAKE A MODAL VERB NEGATIVE

MANY MODAL VERBS CAN NOT BE USED IN PAST OR FUTURE TENSES

THEY MAKE QUESTIONS BY INVERSION

HE CAN PLAY CAN HE PLAY?

HE PLAYS SOCCER DOES HE PLAY SOCCER?

THEY ARE FOLLOWED DIRECTLY BY AN INFINITIVE VERB

PRINCIPAL MODAL VERBS

CAN

COULD

MAY

MIGHT

MUST

SHALL

SHOULD

WILL

WOULD

USED TO

SEMI-MODALS

OUGHT

HAD BETTER

DARE

NEED

HAVE

KINDS OF MODAL VERBS

PROBABILITY

- MUST BE

- IT MUST BE RAINING

- COULD

- HE COULD HAVE GONE TO THE CINEMA YESTERDAY

- CAN NOT

- THIS BILL CAN’T BE RIGHT, 20€ IT’S TOO MUCH!

- MAY/MIGHT

- WE MAY/MIGHT GO TO THE PARTY

KINDS OF MODAL VERBS

PERMISSION

- CAN/COULD

- COULD I LEAVE EARLY TODAY?

- CAN WE SWIM IN THE LAKE?

- MAY

- MAY I GO TO THE BATHROOM?

- SHALL

- SHALL I PASS?

KINDS OF MODAL VERBS

ABILITY

- CAN

- WE CAN TEACH MODAL VERBS TO THE CLASS

- COULD

- I COULD RUN 100 M IN 5 SECONDS AT MY BEST TIMES

KINDS OF MODAL VERBS

HABITS

- WILL

- JORDI WILL ALWAYS BE LATE!

- WOULD

- 7 YEARS AGO, I WOULD SPEAK CHINESE

- USED TO

- WHEN I WAS 5 I USED TO PLAY “PICA-PARET”

KINDS OF MODAL VERBS

OBLIGATION, ADVICE AND NECESSITY

- MUST

- YOU MUST GO TO SCHOOL

- HAVE

- YOU HAVE TO DO YOUR HOMEWORK

- SHALL

- YOU SHALL NOT PASS!

- SHOULD/OUGHT

- YOU SHOULD SCREAM IF YOU FEEL STRESSED

- HE OUGHT TO TELL THAT TO THE TEACHER

- DARE

- DARE HE STUDY?

- NEED TO

- YOU NEED TO STUDY IF YOU DON’T WANT TO FAIL

*TO MAKE THE NEGATIVE FORMS WE USE NOT

KINDS OF MODAL VERBS

CERTAINTY

- MUST

- HE MUST BE IN A CAR RUSH

- CAN’T/COULDN’T

- THAT CAN’T/COULDN’T BE TRUE