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Understanding English Modals Usage

The document contains 12 sentences with blanks that are to be filled in with modals including must/mustn't, can/can't, may, could, should/shouldn't, and might. The sentences provide examples of using modals to express obligations, permissions, possibilities, abilities and suggestions related to actions in different contexts such as hospitals, work, language skills, preferences, rules and requests.

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Understanding English Modals Usage

The document contains 12 sentences with blanks that are to be filled in with modals including must/mustn't, can/can't, may, could, should/shouldn't, and might. The sentences provide examples of using modals to express obligations, permissions, possibilities, abilities and suggestions related to actions in different contexts such as hospitals, work, language skills, preferences, rules and requests.

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MODALS

Put must/mustn’t, can/can’t, may, could, should/shouldn’t, might

1. It's a hospital. You _______________ smoke.


2. He had been working for more than 11 hours. He __________ be tired after such hard work.
He _______________ prefer to get some rest.
3. I _____________ speak Arabic fluently when I was a child and we lived in Morocco. But after
we moved back to Canada, I had very little exposure to the language and forgot almost
everything I knew as a child. Now, I ________________just say a few things in the
language.
4. The teacher said we __________  read this book for our own pleasure as it is optional.
5.  _____________you stand on your head for more than a minute? No,
I _____________________.
6. If you want to learn to speak English fluently, you _________________ to work hard. .
7. Take an umbrella. It  __________________ rain later.
8. You_________________ leave small objects lying around small children.
9. People ____________________ walk on grass.
10. Drivers __________________ stop when the traffic lights are red.
11. _______________ I ask a question? Yes, of course.
12. ______________- you speak Italian? No, I ____________________.

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