Modals

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Modals


MODALS: CAN, MAY, MUST, HAVE TO
CAN
MUST
1) Ability
I can drive

2) Possibility
I can come 		1) Obligation
I must do my homework.
2) For an opinion that you think has a good possibility of being true.
Look at his uniform. He must be a policeman.
MAY
HAVE TO
1) Probability
She may come tomorrow.
2) In a very polite question
May I open the window? 		1) In the affirmative: HAVE TO has a meaning similar to MUST.
I have to go to the school.
2) In the negative: HAVE TO has a different meaning: 'you don't need to do that'
It's Sunday! I don't have to go to school.

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