Match the columns according to the meaning of the modal verb in bold in each sentence below.
1 – Impossibility
2 – Possibility
3 – Prohibition
4 – Advice
( ) Mark studied hard for his exams, but he got poor marks; he can’t be very clever.
( ) You should work less! You look too tired!
( ) She may be in the garden.
( ) You mustn’t enter here.
Consider on the text, judge the item.
In the sentence “Real property shouldn’t be confused” (line 13) “shouldn’t” is an auxiliary verb and can be correctly replaced by might without changing the meaning of the sentence.
Throughout the text, we can observe the use of the words may and might, for example, “Students may need support…”, “further training and support may be needed…”, “teachers might need to acquire the skills…”, “They might also need time…”. The author has chosen these words
Concerning the previous text and its linguistic aspects, judge the following item.
In the fragment ‘The good guy only has to keep things in order’, the word ‘has’ could be correctly replaced with must, without changing the meaning of the text.
In the sentence: “In order to encourage learners in a monolingual class to participate in pair and group work, it might be worth asking them…”, the modal verb might is used