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MODAL VERBS AND PASSIVE

The document provides an overview of modal verbs, including their uses for permission, possibility, ability, and obligation, with examples for each. It also explains personal and impersonal passives, showing how to convert active sentences into passive forms. Additionally, it outlines various verb tenses using the verb 'deliver' in both active and passive constructions.

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MODAL VERBS AND PASSIVE

The document provides an overview of modal verbs, including their uses for permission, possibility, ability, and obligation, with examples for each. It also explains personal and impersonal passives, showing how to convert active sentences into passive forms. Additionally, it outlines various verb tenses using the verb 'deliver' in both active and passive constructions.

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MODAL VERBS

-Can: Permiso (you can go to the cinema)


Posibilidad (That can be dangerous)
Habilidad (She can sing very well)
Solicitud (Can I go to the party?)

-Could: Habilidad en el pasado (I could dance when I was young)


Solicitud educada (Could you bring me some water, please?)

-May: Dar permiso (You may go now puedes irte ahora)


Posibilidad (There are some clouds. It may rain)

-Might: Posibilidad (He might come tomorrow)


(Menos probable que el may)

-Must: Obligación/órden (You must wash the floor)


Certeza/deducción (He isn’t here today. He must be ill)
Necesidad (I must go home)

-Should: Dar consejo (You should listen to your parents)


(debes)

-Ought to: Deber/Obligación moral (Students ought to respect their teachers)

-Have to: Necesidad/obligación (I have to go to the office early)

-Needn’t: Ausencia de necesidad/ (You needn’t wear a uniform)


obligación

-Would: Ofrecimiento/ invitación (Would you like a bear?)


Solicitud muy educada (Would you mind closing the door?)

-Shall: Ofrecimiento (Shall I start?)


Sugerencia (Shall we to Menorca next summer?)
Pedir consejo (Shall I tell him?)
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PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL PASSIVES

For the verbs think, believe, say, report, know, expect, consider, understand.

Active: People believe that he lied in court.


Passive: 1. It + passive + that-clause (impersonal)
It is believed (that) he lied in court.

2. Subject + passive + to-infinitive (personal)


He is believed to have lied in court.

PASSIVE

VERB TENSES (EXEMPLE WITH THE VERB DELIVER)


-Present simple: delivers are delivered
-Past simple: delivered were delivered
-Future simple: will deliver will be delivered
-Present perfect: has/have delivered has/have + been + delivered
-Past perfect: had delivered had been delivered
-Present continuous: is delivering are being delivered
-Past continuous: was delivered was being delivered
-Infinitive: to deliver to be delivered

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