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Habit-Truth talking about a general truth Present V/Vs,es Present V/Vs,es 1... If she were you, she wouldn’t behave like that I don’t have money.. 3 If I had known you came here yester

0 Habit-Truth

(talking about a

general truth)

Present V/Vs,es

Present V/Vs,es

1

Open-condition( possi

bility)

Present V/Vs,es

Future Will + V

2 Present

unreal

conditional

Past : were V2/Ved

Conditional 1: Would/could + V

0 If you break the law, you are an

offender.

If you lose weight during the time of medical therapy, you regain after ward

True for everyone experience

1 If the weather is beautiful, I’ll go to

2 If I had money I would lend you.

If she were you, she wouldn’t behave like that

I don’t have money.

She isn’t you.

3 If I had known you came here

yesterday, I would have picked you up.

I didn’t know you came.

Modals: Ability, Possibility and Speculation

 1 Expressing Ability (Can-Could-Be able to)

 can – could: an ability

 Ex: Can you swim? / I can use his car when he’s

on vacation

 Be able to: describe a special achievement or a specific situation

 Ex: The fire spread so quickly but luckily people were able to escape

 2 Expressing Permission (May-can-could-Do you mind…?)

 May I park in your driveway?

 Can / could I use your computer a little bit?

 Do you mind if I use your pen?

 3 Expressing Request

 Can you help me?

 Could you please go this way?

4 Expressing possibility

(May-might-could)

 Present and future possibility

 We use may, might, and could to Talk about

present and future

We might go to the beach.

 Possibility in the past

5 Expressing logical deduction (Must-can’t)

 Must- can’t sth we are sure

 in the present

 Ex1: You have just had a big breakfast You can’t

be hungry

 Ex2: You have worked really hard You must be tired

 In the past

 Yesterday you can’t have been at the swimming pool It’s closed all day yesterday

 My watch said 10 It must have been stopped

Must vs have to: Necessity or obligation

 Must: oneself thinks it’s

important that need to

be done:

 You must see a doctor

 You mustn’t enter this

room

 Mustn’t: obligation not

 Have to: obligation or rule

 You have to see a doctor

 You don’t have to enter this room if you don’t have class today