Grammar. Modal verbs | a full assembling

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If you choose a bold colour to paint the walls, you ____ choose a meager tonality, neutral elements, unpatterned textures, which balance the interior. You ____ give the walls of life. That's right.

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I ____ help you, but I'm not sure yet. Let's look at the circumstances this week.

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He ____ be given a warm welcome with all the honours and a celebratory table. We promise that – he brings a gold medal.

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I ____ not open it, for it's sealed with Sulayman's Seal! I'd better go instead of trying. Let them call me the weakling.

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Martin ____ walk to school because his dad drives him. Quite a good arrangement.

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One hundred pounds ____ be enough to do the quick shopping at the mall. I think reasonably.

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This ____ be her letterbox, she lives in flat 23.

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He ____ pass this time as he has worked satisfactorily hard. Things have to get better... But, as well, not.

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This meanness seemed to me more appropriate for the personality of Mr. Cooper – a sanitary inspector, whose inclinations __________ be more servile, irritating against the background of an already frenzied life filled with lies and giveaways. His soppy words, sly squint and willingness to hush up an unfair deed prevailed over clean nails.

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Don't you think we were taking quite a risk? We ____ these shares.

¶ The modal verb «to be to» is used in two tenses: The Present and The Past Indefinite. It expresses: 1) Possibility due to previous agreement. I was to scrape off those cauldrons from the limescale. 2) Possibility due to some rules, laws, regulations. You are not to go into the patient's room. 3) Possibility due to circumstances with the Passive Infinitive only. Such specific ores are to be mined only at the foot of the Cordillera. Fenwick is to be condemned anyway. 4) Our wish – in Conditionals. ¶

How can this sentence be translated using MODAL «TO BE TO» and Conditionals?

Якщо вони хочуть зупинити поширення аміачних добрив (ammonia fertilizers) у річках, вони мають згуртуватися, повідомити про це в інстанції, прослідкувати маршрути й стан річок.

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______ more focused on work this morning? Bear in mind.

The modal verb «to be to» can be used to inform of something, which was a fact of future action for the discussed moment in the past, but the only real fact for the present moment – this event is destined to happen.

Which sentence clearly spells out this rule?

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____ her soul rest in peace.

You ____ go to Beirut to attend negotiations. Everything was paid for you in advance, it remains only to gather up and wait.

____ you swim?

× There is a range of the modal verbs to describe the future, depending on how probable the event or situation is. Complete:

It will be foggy tomorrow. 100% sure

It should be foggy tomorrow. 80% sure

It may be foggy tomorrow. 50% possibility

It might be foggy tomorrow. ____ % possibility

It ____ be foggy tomorrow. 30% possibility

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Where is Chloe? She ____ be in office.

I'm struggling with deciding where to go this summer. I ____ go to Italy. Incinerate all work with blue-ray!

They must ____ to Saint-Martinas before.

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______ go to the front desk and make an appointment to see the doctor if I am only a little sick, nothing more? What do you recommend?

Match the definitions with the list of modal verbs separated by commas. There should be only one modal verb after each equal sign.

It's a good idea =

Is it OK? =

It isn't necessary =

It's your duty =

It's possible =

It's forbidden =

It's an equivalent to «can» =

I've made a decision in strong necessarity =

You're obliged to =

It's attributed to moral duties, the call of the heart =

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I was waiting for your message! You _____ me as soon as the plane landed and you unloaded luggage.

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We ____ tidy up our room. Laura has already done it.

Our cavalry ___ troop round the enemy's rear, as you like, Captain.

I think you ___ go to bed earlier tonight. The exam won't allow the eyes to be soft-boiled.

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The secretary _______ the documents before the boss _____ on vacation.

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Bill isn't here. Then he _____ be working in the garage.

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SOPHIE: I don't know why Mary started crying when I mentioned her son.

ANDY: It ______ what you said about his absence or she was just very worried about him.

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MIKE: It would be fine if you (1) _____ (get) that venue.

TERESA: You're dead right! Although it (2) _____ (be) a bit incapacious if all our families turn up, we'll see.

Which modal verb is missing from all of these sentences?

_____ I leave for a few minutes? If you have no objection.

We _____ as well have dinner here.

It _____ look expensive, but this is at first sight!

He _____ be in parlour, unless he’s already left.

_____ His Grace be with you!

You see a situation:

You don't believe your friend's story.

How will you respond?

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Lucas is acting strange. I think he _____ again.

Rebuild the sentence, as it has the same meaning with the given.

I'm sure, Johannes is from Finland. <=> Johannes _____ be from Finland.

Rebuild the sentence, as it has the same meaning with the given.

I highly recommend you to buy unexpired candies. <=> You ____ buy unexpired candies.

Match the beginning of the sentences (1-3) with its ending (a-d). There's ONE extra ending.

1. Old Mr. McPherson was murdered this morning in his greenhouse: his body lay flat near the wheelbarrow, ...

2. Despite the assumptions of the valet, McPherson's confidant, ...

3. But the cook came across an overturned jar of cyanide in the middle of the pantry room, ...

a. no one (from the murderers, of course) made sure that it ____ (find).

b. and the guests of the owner's house, who found him, were wondering who ____ (do) this.

c. they _____ (take) one thing into account.

d. police suspected that it _____ (be) his wife, commiting the crime.

Put the verbs in the gaps in the correct form using Modals.

DO NOT fill the gap in the extra sentence, omit it (a, b, c or d) totally

1. Old Mr. McPherson was murdered this morning in his greenhouse: his body lay flat near the wheelbarrow, ...

2. Despite the assumptions of the valet, McPherson's confidant, ...

3. But the cook came across an overturned jar of cyanide in the middle of the pantry room, ...

a. no one (from the murderers, of course) made sure that it ____ (find).

b. and the guests of the owner's house, who found him, were wondering who ____ (do) this.

c. they _____ (take) one thing into account.

d. police suspected that it _____ (be) his wife, commiting the crime.