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Modals

Can :-
Ability (present)
Permission( informal)
General truth
Offers
Can-

1- to define ability or capacity in present


I can answer all the questions.

She can speak English very well.

2- to give and seek permission ( informal)

You can play with your friends after doing your homework.

You can go on the trip.

Can I have your number?

Can we go home now?

3- for general truth (but not always)

Water can extinguish the fire.

Fireworks can frighten the pets.

4- to make offers

Can I help you lift that?

Can we do anything for you?

Could :
Ability (past)

Permission (formal)

Possibility( present/ future)

Ability

I could swim when I was 5 years old.

I couldn’t play chess two years ago but I can now.

Permission ( could is more formal and polite than can)

Could I ask you personal question?

Could I use your pen?

Possibility

It’s yellow. ( I am certain that it is yellow)

It could be yellow.( Present possibility)

The storm could get worse.( Future possibility )

If I had more money, I could buy a motor cycle.

May
Permission( formal)

1- May I use your phone?

Possibility

1- She may come late today.

Wish/ bless/ curse/pray

May you live long!

For uncertainty/ surprise

Who may be there!

Might
Possibility( less possibility than may)
It might rain today. (Less possibility)
It may rain today. ( High possibility

Polite request/ permission


Might I ask you a question?
In suppositional sentences
If you worked hard, you might succeed.
Will/ shall
Shall

I/ we- shall
We shall go there tonight.
Command
He shall go there at once.

Promise
He shall be awarded
Threatened
If you do this, you shall be dismissed.
Compulsion
You shall come to school at ten.

In interrogative sentences
Shall I open the gate?

Will
With 2nd and 3rd person
He will help her.
Determination
We will not allow her to come in.

Would

For past habits


She would sit for hours in her garden and knit.
For polite request
Would you please lend me your book?

Possibility
He would be her husband.
For expressing wish
Would that he were here.
For preference or choice

She would rather go than stay.


For unreal conditions of present or past
I were a bird, I would fly on the sky.
Should

To express moral obligations or duty


We should not tell a lie.
For giving advice
You should not laugh at his mistakes.
After lest
Work hard lest you should fail.

Formal notices
Candidates should answer all the questions.
For unreal situations
If I were you, I should not cheat him.
Ought to
For moral obligations

We ought to love our country.


We ought to help those who are in need.
For strong possibility
He ought to Win the race.
The film ought to be a great success.

Must
Compulsion or strong moral obligation
Cars must not be parked in front.
One must keep one’s promise.
Fixed determination
We must go.

Soldiers must obey orders without question.


Strong probability
He must be a robber.
Used to
For past habits
She used to play Ludo before her marriage.
When “used to” is used as Adjective
He is not used to drinking tea without sugar in it.

Need ( main verb)


For Necessity
He needs my help.
For expressing negative idea

I needn’t help you.


Dare
(Main verb)
He dares to go there.
He dared to call me a fool.
For giving challenges

I dare you to win the match.


( Marginal auxiliary verb)
He dare not oppose his father.

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