اللغة الإنجليزية فصل أول

Unit 2

Lessons 2-3

Student’s Book pages 19-20

 

                                    GRAMMAR

Modal verbs of possibility: must, might, could, can’t.

● We use various modal verbs to talk about degrees of certainty and uncertainty and to speculate about possibilities and impossibilities.

 

● We use must to talk about relative certainty.

It must be diamond!

There must be some cheese in the fridge.

 

● We use could to talk about possibility, including strong possibility or probability.

It could be someone who looks like her.

It could be amber. Amber has many different colours.

 

● We use might to talk more speculatively about things about which there is less certitude, only some degree of possibility.

It might be ruby because it is a hard precious stone.

She might be at the library. She always goes there after school.

 

● We use cannot (can’t) to talk about impossibility or negative certainty.

It can’t be amber because amber is found in northern Europe.

Yes, it can't be emerald because emeralds are green.