PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR YEAR I
Modal Verbs I PRACTICE SHEET 1
Ex. I: Determine the meaning of the modal verbs used in the sentences below:
1. I will not live there again until it belongs to me.
2. It will be very moving.
3. You must show respect.
4. I shall be away in London a good deal.
5. Edmund, you will not be difficult, please.
6. This will all belong to you.
7. Edmund, you will come down here at once.
8. My mother can't afford to buy us a house.
9. We cannot sing all day.
10. 'Then if Hitler invades, will you come to England?' 'And if I could not - would you come there?'
11. You mean, today you should either be here with other singers, or at this concert.
12. I could hardly judge our performance.
13. Small she might be, but she was a miniature tank.
14. But what a chance for me if I could win tickets for Bayreuth.
15. When I could interrupt her I murmured that I'd always thought that beloved Furher was Austrian.
16. We must go, Irma. My music teacher will be expecting us to join her.
17. There is no way you can help.
18. Welfare officials at migrant hotels are often shocked by the rapid disintegration they see in the morale of a migrant when he cannot find anyone who thinks him worth employing.
19, In Western Australia, about half of the population of a housing estate called Lynwood are British. You can hear the accents in the supermarket.
20. We had made it clear Granny could come if she wanted.
21. If we meant what we had said about wanting her to come, we obviously had to be able to write to her, as we did, and talk about 'her' room.
22. She can't speak English. She's Dutch.
23. We ate a meal which must have been a very late lunch.
24. I think they may have had cold lamb.
25. The young man suggested we might like to look at some land at the other side of the road.
26. You will find trees, shrubs, flowers and home all combining to provide coolness in the summer, the best use of the sunny days in winter and colour, perfume and privacy all the year round.
27. We almost knocked at the door to ask if we could come in for tea and crumpets.
28. You won't be in need of a holiday when the home is complete.
29. We had to think about it now.
30. A man who has brought his family half-way round the world to a new life will do almost anything rather than settle for a cheap home.
31. We cannot expect them - lonely and uneasy, needing time and friendliness and understanding - to turn to Australians overnight.
32. Every speech ought to be put together like a living creature, with a body of its own, so as to be neither without head or without feet, but to have both a middle and extremities.
33. You can have the best ideas in the world (...) but if you are unable to organise your ideas (...) you might not speak at all.
34. You must plan you conversation just as an architect develops a plan for a building.
35. You should also test potential patterns to determine which helps you to clarify and amplify your ideas
36. Your introductory remarks and concluding statements should each occupy approximately 10-15%.
37. The point is you must select a particular orientation and carry it through.
38. The first task might be to establish in the minds of your listeners that the problem really exists.
39. Just as fashion designers must create an interesting pattern (...) you must select an appealing pattern for your presentation.
40. Whenever you feel yourself becoming defensive, you might experience one or more of the following symptoms: a change in voice tone, etc.
41. Another behaviour that can function to increase defensiveness in group members is neutrality.
42. You must suspend judgement and honestly believe that the conflict can potentially be resolved in a variety of ways.
43. Your goal should not be to have fewer conflicts but rather to make those that you have constructive.
44. How to become an effective speaker? Of course you must work at it.
45. For some speeches you may be required to deliver a detailed report.
46. You might be interested in making the students in your class think or behave in a particular way.
47. You may also consult bibliographical sources and encyclopedias.
48. For instance you might be able to discover the percentage of students interested in enrolling for such courses.
49. He lacked only children. Esther could not conceive.