Probability/ Possibility Ability Permission Obligation/ Advice Offers
Probability/ Possibility Ability Permission Obligation/ Advice Offers
POSSIBILITY ADVICE
CAN I can play the Can I go out
piano tonight?
CANT She cant be his mum. I cant speak Can I borrow the
She s too young German car? No, I cant.
MAY / MIGHT HAVE + P.P. Deduction on a past event Joe may / might have taken the
wrong train.
COULD HAVE + P.P. Possibility to do something, gone You could have played better
unfulfilled
COULDNT HAVE + P.P. Certainty that something couldnt have He couldnt have passed
happened because you hadnt studied
enough
WOULD HAVE + P.P. Desire to do something, but I would have visited you, but I
impossibility to do it for external forgot your address
causes
SHOULD / Lament on something that should have You should / ought to have
OUGHT TO HAVE + P.P. been done warned me earlier
SHOULDNT HAVE + P.P. Critique on something that shouldnt He shouldnt have told them
have happened
NEEDNT HAVE + P.P. Somthing that wasnt necessary doing You neednt have bought it .