MODALS 3: Lots of Choices
Complete the sentences using MAY, MIGHT, CAN, CAN’T, SHOULD, SHOULDN’T, MUST, HAVE TO, HAS TO, NEEDN’T, MUSTN’T, DON’T HAVE TO, or DOESN’T HAVE TO. More than one answer is possible sometimes.
Then, to the left of the numbers below, mark each sentence according to the correct mood: A = Ability; P = Possibility; N = Necessity; S = advice/Suggestion; L = Likelihood ___ 1. ___________________ I use your pen, please?
___ 2. You really ___________________ see that new documentary. It’s fantastic.
___ 3. You ___________________ write 30 sentences for homework because you have misbehaved.
___ 4. You ___________________ to write 300 lines. 30 will be enough.
___ 5. Please, excuse me but I really ___________________ go now.
___ 6. John, you ___________________ speak so quickly. Nobody can understand you!
___ 7. We ___________________ watch TV tonight. We haven’t decided yet.
___ 8. If you’ve got such a bad cough, you ___________________ smoke.
___ 9. I am happy to inform you that I ___________________ come to work next week. ___ 10.You ___________________ make so much noise. The baby is sleeping in the next room.
___ 11.She ___________________ work hard because she’s a single parent and has little money.
___ 12.You ___________________ go now. The train leaves in an hour, so you’ve still got some time left.
___ 13.According to the weather report it ___________________ rain this afternoon. ___ 14.He ___________________ speak Italian fluently because he spent 5 years there.
___ 15.That __________________ be John over there. He said he would be in America this week.
___ 16.You ___________________ take the test seriously, even if you already have enough good grades to pass.
___ 17.I ___________________ go out tonight, but I don’t think so. I feel too tired.
___ 18.___________________ Mary come with us?
___ 19.You ___________________ speak French. I can speak English quite well.
___ 20.You ___________________ take an ID card with you if you enter the stadium. Otherwise you won’t get in.