Shhh! Be quiet, my parents might be asleep already.Let’s watch TV, there might be something good on.Don’t drive so fast, you could have an accident.Don’t forget to bring an umbrella, it might rain.I’m going to the bar after football so I might be late home.You might at least say hello when you get home instead of going straight to your bedroom.You could at least put your dirty dishes in the sink.You might at least pick up your dirty clothes.Match them with the different meanings they express in the box at the bottom. Look at the sets of different expressions using might and other modal verbs. I explain about them here.Mighty-might-key Download Mighty Might – Student Handout The past modals 'could have + past participle', 'should have + past participle' and 'would have + past participle' can be confusing. When I lived in Italy, we would often eat in the restaurant next to my flat.We can use 'will' and 'would' to talk about habits or things we usually do, or did in the past. We also use modal verbs to say something is not allowed. We can use verbs such as 'can', 'could' and 'may' to ask for and give permission. We can use verbs such as 'must' or 'should' to say when something is necessary or unnecessary, or to give advice.Ĭlick here to find out more about obligation Permission My grandfather could play golf very well.Ĭlick here to find out more about ability.We use 'can' and 'could' to talk about a skill or ability. £200 for two cups of coffee!Ĭlick here to find out more about probability. It's snowing, so it must be very cold outside.We often call these 'modals of deduction' or 'speculation' or 'certainty' or 'probability'.
Probability:įirst, they can be used when we want to say how sure we are that something happened / is happening / will happen. Here's a list of the modal verbs in English: canġ: They don't use an 's' for the third person singular.Ģ: They make questions by inversion ('she can go' becomes 'can she go?').ģ: They are followed directly by the infinitive of another verb (without 'to'). Click here to download this explanation as a pdf.Ĭlick here for all the exercises about modal verbs
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