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Useful Modals

This document discusses the use of modals in English grammar for ordering a meal. It provides examples of using modals to make polite requests, offers, suggestions, questions, and orders. Specifically, it covers modals for ability, permission, possibility, prediction, promises, habits, and polite versus impolite forms.

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Useful Modals

This document discusses the use of modals in English grammar for ordering a meal. It provides examples of using modals to make polite requests, offers, suggestions, questions, and orders. Specifically, it covers modals for ability, permission, possibility, prediction, promises, habits, and polite versus impolite forms.

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USEFUL MODALS - ENGLISH GRAMMAR ORDERING A MEAL

Use request offer suggestion Use polite question * polite request * polite offer * polite suggestion * Use polite suggestion

Examples _______ you wait a moment, please? I _______ lend you my car till tomorrow. _______ we visit Grandma at the weekend? Examples _______I go to the cinema, please? _______ you wait a moment, please? I _______ lend you my car till tomorrow. _______ we visit Grandma at the weekend? Examples _______ I help you?

Use wish, request, demand, order (less polite than would) spontaneous decision Use wish, request (more polite than will)

Examples _______you please shut the door? Can somebody drive me to the station? - I _______. Examples _______you shut the door, please?

Modals - English Grammar Use ability to do sth. in the present (substitute form: to be able to) Examples I can speak English.

permission to do sth. in the present (substitute form: to be allowed to) request offer suggestion possibility Use ability to do sth. in the past (substitute form: to be able to) permission to do sth. in the past (substitute form: to be allowed to) polite question * polite request * polite offer * polite suggestion * possibility * Use possibility permission to do sth. in the present (substitute form: to be allowed to) polite suggestion Instead of will in the 1st person Use suggestion Use wish, request, demand, order (less polite than would) prediction, assumption promise spontaneous decision habits Use wish, request (more polite than will) habits in the past * no past forms - future forms

Can I go to the cinema? Can you wait a moment, please? I can lend you my car till tomorrow. Can we visit Grandma at the weekend? It can get very hot in Arizona. Examples I could speak English. I could go to the cinema. Could I go to the cinema, please? Could you wait a moment, please? I could lend you my car till tomorrow. Could we visit Grandma at the weekend? It could get very hot in Montana. Examples It may rain today. May I go to the cinema? May I help you?

Examples Shall I carry your bag? Examples Will you please shut the door? I think it will rain on Friday. I will stop smoking. Can somebody drive me to the station? - I will. She's strange, she'll sit for hours without talking. Examples Would you shut the door, please? Sometimes he would bring me some flowers.

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