David Estebanell Redondo

David Farré Delgado

-Ability: The language teacher can speak with a lot of people.

Request: Can I go to play football?

-Possibility: She can be very beautiful if she wears a lot of make-up.

-Ability: Jim is able to work in a restaurant.

-Possibility: I will be able to go to the party tonight.

-Inhability: He can’t swim very well.

-Prohibition: You can’t come here with your children.

-Disbelief: This can’t be possible. For me, Jesus doesn’t exist.

-Past ability: My father could run faster than me when he was younger.

-Polite request: Could I borrow a pencil please?

-Polite suggestion: You could invite your girlfriend out for dinner.

-Possibility: Martin could meet new people going to the GYM.

-Possibility: It may/might rain today.

-Polite request: May I ask you a question?

-Advice: You should/ought to run if you don’t want to die.

-Necessity, obligation: You need to go on holiday some time.

-Necessity, obligation: Maria has to help her mother.

-Obligation, strong necessity: He must study more.

- Certainty that something is true: She must be Elena. She hasn’t changed so much.

-Prohibition: You mustn’t swim in the river of crocodiles.

-Lack of obligation/necessity: You don’t have to clean your room because the cleaner will do it.

-Lack of obligation/necessity: We needn’t to do anything.

- Formal request: Would you come tomorrow to meet my best friend?

-Offer: Would you like to come to the cinema with me.

- Ability to have done something but in fact did not: You could have woken up 10 minutes before so you wouldn´t have arrived so late.

- Certainty that something didn’t happen: Angel couldn’t have kissed you cause he was at home with me.

- A guess about a past action: He may/might have forgotten all about you.

- Certainty of logical conclusion about an event in the past: I heard you went to Port Aventura. It must have been amazing.

- Criticism or regret after an event: You should/ought to have waited some years to go to live together.

- Criticism or regret after an event: He shouldn’t have invited his enemy to his birthday party.

- Willingness to have done something but in fact did not: I would have gone to visit my uncle to the hospital.