Practising modals of possibility/probability/deduction FCE Speaking tasks with pictures, especially Speaking Part Two, are really good for this point. In that task, students compare two pictures that they’ve never seen before and therefore need to say things like “This could be a lake too, bu...
Despite the long and fancy name “modals of possibility and probability”, with this grammar point we are basically talking here about language used for guessing and so if you get students doing that you have a suitable situation to elicit and/or practise this language. Possible stimuli to make...
Ability and Permission: "Can" and "could" are used to express ability or permission. For example, "I can swim," "You could use the phone," "They can't play the piano." Possibility and Probability: "May" and "might" express possibility or probability. For instance,...
Modals of possibility are auxiliary verbs that express the speaker's or writer's degree of certainty or uncertainty about the likelihood of an event or situation. They are used to indicate the possibility, probability, or impossibility of something happening or being true. The three most common...
The findings showed that the preferred modals for the two levels are modals can, will and could which were used to express ability and certainty. Modals of probability/possibility showed lower frequencies of use in the writing. Also, students at the lower level were less competent in using ...
1.of, relating to, or characteristic of mode or manner 2.(Grammar)grammar(of a verb form or auxiliary verb) expressing a distinction of mood, such as that between possibility and actuality. The modal auxiliaries in English includecan, could, may, must, need, ought, shall, should, will,an...
However, if the scale of possibility is identified with standard numerical probability, the facts about gradability are explained and the undesirable predictions of Kratzer's theory are avoided. 展开 DOI: 10.3765/salt.v0i20.2557 被引量: 64 ...
This sentence expresses the speaker's certainty of going IF they had more money, which they don't.So the certain prediction exists, but in an imaginary or unreal situation.The modal "might" expresses less possibility than "may", so "might go" is less likely than "may go".The...
(1972) use the terms 'ability', 'permission', 'possibility', 'volition', 'obligation', 'probability' and 'logical necessity' among others. Nowadays, more and more researchers pay their attention to the contrastive study of English native speakers' corpus and non-native English learners' (...
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