Modal auxiliary verbs - contents.

Grammar explanations of modal auxiliaries.

Modal auxiliaries 1: can, could, may, might...

• Complete explanation of can, could, may, might...
• Asking for permission and offering...
• Asking for things in general...
• Ability...
• Possibility (present and future)...
• Deductions...
• Ability in the past...
• Exercises on can, could, may, might...

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ability in the past (manage to, able to)...

ability in present and past (modal auxiliaries)...

Modal auxiliaries 2: should, ought to.

• Complete explanation of should, ought to...
• Advice and obligation...
• Strong probability...
• Should and ought to in the past...
• Differences between should and ought to...
• Use of should and in case...
• Avoiding the English subjunctive...
• Exercises on should, ought to...

Modal auxiliaries 3: must.

• Complete explanation of must...
• Differences between must and have to...
• Must in first person...
• Modal auxiliaries are not infinitives...
• Must and assumptions (suppositions)...
• Exercises on must...

Modal auxiliaries 4: would, (used to).

• Complete explanation of would...
• Conditional use of would...
• Future in the past...
• Polite would...
• Repeated actions in the past (would compared with used to)...
• Used to + infinitive - complete explanation...
• Criticism...
• Refusals (past tense)...
• Would in reported speech (he said he would do it)...
• Exercises on would...
• Exercises on would as a conditional...

Going to for future.

• Complete explanation of going to compared with present continuous for future (I'm going to watch; I'm watching)...
• Structure of going to...
• Going to for future plans...
• Predictions for future...
• Threats and promises...
• Exercises - going to for future...
• Exercises - present continuous for future...

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going to (predictions)...

Will / Shall and going to for future.

• Complete explanation of will / shall and going to compared...
• Structure of will / shall...
• Future predictions with will and going to...
• Orders and polite requests...
• Threats, promises, offers, suggestions and immediate decisions...
• Refusals (present tense)..
• Habits and behaviour...
• Shall for promises...
• Shall for offers and suggestions...
• Exercises on will, shall and going to for future...

Used to + infinitive for past.

• Complete explanation of used to...
• Structure...
• How to use used to...
• Confusion with used to + verb + "ing"...
• Used to compared with would for past habitual actions...
• Exercises on used to + infinitive...

 

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