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    This document outlines the main English modal verbs and their common uses, including verbs expressing ability, permission, possibility, necessity, obligation, advice and future events. It lists modals such as can, could, may, might, must, have to, need, ought to, shall, will, would and the types of meanings they are often used to convey.

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    MODALS AND

    ASSOCIATED VERBS
    VERB USE
    Ability / Capability
    (past, present, future
    BE ABLE TO
    Ability / Capable of doing something with a degree of difficulty
    (past, present, future)
    MANAGE TO
    Ability / Capability
    (present)
    Permission
    Possibility
    CAN Request
    Offer
    Negative deduction (present)
    Prohibition
    Ability / Capability
    (past)
    Permission
    Possibility
    COULD Request
    Offer
    Suggestion
    Negative deduction (past)
    Permission
    Possibility
    Request
    MAY Offer
    Prohibition
    Speculation
    Possibility
    Speculation
    MIGHT Suggestion
    Conditional
    Deduction
    Necessity
    Obligation
    Prohibition
    MUST Emphatic advice
    Obligation
    Negative: Not necessary and not done
    HAVE TO
    Necessity
    Negative
    NEED
    Deduction
    Assumption
    OUGHT TO Advice
    Recommendation
    Advice
    HAD BETTER Recommendation
    Assumption / deduction
    Advice
    Recommendation
    Necessity
    SHOULD Obligation
    Prediction
    Prohibition
    Speculation
    Suggestion
    Decision
    SHALL Future
    Question
    Offer
    Assumption
    Deduction
    Future
    Offer
    Promise
    WILL Intention
    Obligation / decision
    Prediction
    Conditional
    Possibility
    Request
    Speculation
    Polite question
    WOULD Offer
    Past tense ‘will’ (indirect speech)
    Customary past action
    Invitation
    Preference
    Conditional

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