Exercises with Past Modals
This page provides practical exercises to reinforce the understanding and usage of past modals. It offers a series of sentences that require transformation using the appropriate modal verbs to express certainty, possibility, or impossibility about past events.
Example: "I'm sure Nick bought too many things, his bag seems full" is transformed to "Nick must have bought too many things."
The exercises cover a range of scenarios, allowing learners to practice using different modal verbs in context. Some notable examples include:
- Using "may" to express possibility: "Joana may have been lying in bed now"
- Employing "could" for past possibility: "Alex could have been driving too fast"
- Applying "can't" to indicate impossibility: "Carol can't have eaten your meat pie"
Highlight: These exercises help learners distinguish between must y have to diferencia and understand when to use may, might o must in different contexts.
The page also includes examples of using modal verbs in present continuous situations:
- "He may have been working from home now"
- "Mario might be painting his office now"
Vocabulary: "Break up" is used in the context of ending a relationship, as in "Maria might have broken up with you because of your debts."
These past modals exercises provide valuable practice in forming and using modal verb structures correctly, enhancing learners' ability to express degrees of certainty about past and present situations in English.
