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Modals of Permission Obligation and Prohibition
Modals of Permission Obligation and Prohibition
OBLIGATION
PROHIBITION
Modals of
Permission,
Obligation, and
Prohibition
English 9
Have you experienced being
misunderstood by your family
members, teachers, and friends?
What did you do about it? Would
you like to improve your
communication with them, and be
heard and understood?
MODALS are helping verbs that denote
intention or feeling of the speaker. They
indicate likelihood, permission, ability,
possibility, suggestions, prohibition,
advice, order or request.
parenthesis.
_____________________________
(permission)
Direction: Choose the right modal verb from the pool of words below. Answers may be
repeated.
might must must not can cannot should could
1. There are plenty of tomatoes in the fridge. You ______ buy any.
2. It's a hospital. You _______ smoke.
3. He had been working for more than 11 hours. He ______ be tired after such hard
work. He 4. ______ prefer to get some rest.
5. 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 6. _____ just say a few things in the
language.
7. ______ you stand on your head for more than a minute?
8. If you want to learn to speak English fluently, you ______ to work hard.
9. Take an umbrella. It ________ rain later.
10. Drivers ______ stop when the traffic lights are red.
Conclusion..
.
Learning about modal
of express permission,
verbs