Mam I have a doubt regarding modals .... Please explain me again by a sentence.
Dear student,
Here are a few examples to explain the concept of Modals:
1. CAN :
Can usually express ability, capacity or permission.
Can you lift that box?
I can swim very fast.
Can is also used in the corresponding interrogative and negative sentences.
Can this be true?
2. MAY :
May is used to express possibility in affirmative sentences.
It may rain today.
She may come to school.
3. COULD AND MIGHT :
Could and Might are used as past equivalents of can and may . Could and might are less positive versions of can and may .
I could easily swim across the river;
They might not turn up at all;
4. SHALL :
Shall is used in the first person, although it is sometimes used in the second and third persons also. It is used to express a command, a promise or a threat.
I shall be visiting them tomorrow.
You shall be punished for this.
5. WILL :
Will is used to express future.
We will go for a picnic tomorrow.
6. SHOULD / WOULD :
They are used as past equivalents of shall and will .
Should is used in all persons to express duty or obligation.
We should obey traffic rules;
Should is used to express a supposition that may not be true.
If it should rain, they will not come;
Regards
Here are a few examples to explain the concept of Modals:
1. CAN :
Can usually express ability, capacity or permission.
Can you lift that box?
I can swim very fast.
Can is also used in the corresponding interrogative and negative sentences.
Can this be true?
2. MAY :
May is used to express possibility in affirmative sentences.
It may rain today.
She may come to school.
3. COULD AND MIGHT :
Could and Might are used as past equivalents of can and may . Could and might are less positive versions of can and may .
I could easily swim across the river;
They might not turn up at all;
4. SHALL :
Shall is used in the first person, although it is sometimes used in the second and third persons also. It is used to express a command, a promise or a threat.
I shall be visiting them tomorrow.
You shall be punished for this.
5. WILL :
Will is used to express future.
We will go for a picnic tomorrow.
6. SHOULD / WOULD :
They are used as past equivalents of shall and will .
Should is used in all persons to express duty or obligation.
We should obey traffic rules;
Should is used to express a supposition that may not be true.
If it should rain, they will not come;
Regards
