Hey, this seems pretty familiar, right!? You've learnt about Modals your whole secondary life... but this time we are going a step beyond. These verbs are called modals because they express modality; this is, they ADD MEANING to another verb: obligation, permission, possibility and ability.
For the notes that you must turn in next week, don´t forget to add both MODALS and MODAL PERFECTS along with their use. Thanks!
Before I go on with the grammar lesson, I´d like to give you a set of GOLDEN RULES to avoid those recurring mistakes when using modal verbs:
BASIC GOLDEN RULES TO USE MODAL VERBS
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- They don´t need auxiliaries to make negative sentences or questions:
Can we go with you? / You shouldn´t get so close to the edge.
- We use an infinitive WITHOUT ´to´ after modal verbs (except with ´ought TO´):
They must
Below you can find a couple of charts that will help those ´visual´ learners. Don´t forget to identify the ´uses´ in each chart, as they explain when you will need them.
SIMPLE MODALS
PERFECT MODALS
(they refer to past situations)
As always, I am also enclosing a couple of videos for you to digest grammar and come to class next day with your notes to start practicing and understanding by doing.
BASIC MATERIAL:
Simple Modals
Perfect Modals
CHALLENGE MATERIAL
This video is a very nice summary of modal verbs and their perfect forms. If you don´t remember modal verbs from previous years and you first need to review them, you might have to watch the `basic material` videos first.
