This document outlines different modal verbs in English and the meanings they convey. It categorizes modal verbs into ability, permission, advice, prohibition, possibility, obligation, and lack of obligation. For each category it lists the main modal verbs used and how they are used, for example "can" for ability in the present and "could" for ability in the past.
This document outlines different modal verbs in English and the meanings they convey. It categorizes modal verbs into ability, permission, advice, prohibition, possibility, obligation, and lack of obligation. For each category it lists the main modal verbs used and how they are used, for example "can" for ability in the present and "could" for ability in the past.
This document outlines different modal verbs in English and the meanings they convey. It categorizes modal verbs into ability, permission, advice, prohibition, possibility, obligation, and lack of obligation. For each category it lists the main modal verbs used and how they are used, for example "can" for ability in the present and "could" for ability in the past.
This document outlines different modal verbs in English and the meanings they convey. It categorizes modal verbs into ability, permission, advice, prohibition, possibility, obligation, and lack of obligation. For each category it lists the main modal verbs used and how they are used, for example "can" for ability in the present and "could" for ability in the past.
Can (informal) Should Can (present) Ough to (formal) Could (Polite) Could (past) Prohibition Will (Neutral) Be able to (other tenses) Would (Polite) May (Polite) Mustn’t Possibility Obligation Lack of obligation Can’t May,might (weaker Don’t have to Must possibility) Needn’t Have to Must (sure) Can’t (impossible)