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Modal Verbs To Express Speculation and Deduction

The document discusses modal verbs used to express speculation and deduction. Modal verbs are used to express certain hypothetical conditions, such as advice, capability, or requests. They can also be used for deduction, guessing if something is true using available information. The modal verb chosen shows how certain we are about the possibility. Must have expresses certainty about what happened. Might have or may have expresses possibility. Can't have and couldn't have expresses that something is not possible.

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Modal Verbs To Express Speculation and Deduction

The document discusses modal verbs used to express speculation and deduction. Modal verbs are used to express certain hypothetical conditions, such as advice, capability, or requests. They can also be used for deduction, guessing if something is true using available information. The modal verb chosen shows how certain we are about the possibility. Must have expresses certainty about what happened. Might have or may have expresses possibility. Can't have and couldn't have expresses that something is not possible.

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ETNAG

ED
ORDEP
YARF
OTARELLIHCAB
MODAL VERBS TO
EXPRESS
SPECULATION AND
DEDUCTION

CIENCIAS
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ETNAG
ED
ORDEP
YARF
OTARELLIHCAB
WHAT IS A

MODAL VERB?

CIENCIAS
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PÁGINA 1
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A MODAL VERB,

YARF
MODAL VERBS ARE

OTARELLIHCAB
USED TO EXPRESS
CERTAIN
HYPOTHETICAL
CONDITIONS, SUCH
AS ADVICE,
CAPABILITY, OR
REQUESTS.

CIENCIAS

DE
CLASE
PÁGINA 1
ETNAG
ED
ORDEP
YARF
OTARELLIHCAB
WE CAN USE MODAL VERBS FOR

DEDUCTION – GUESSING IF SOMETHING IS

TRUE USING THE AVAILABLE

INFORMATION. THE MODAL VERB WE

CHOOSE SHOWS HOW CERTAIN WE ARE

ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY.

CIENCIAS
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PÁGINA 07
ETNAG
ED
ORDEP
MUST HAVE

YARF
WE USE MUST HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE WHEN

OTARELLIHCAB
WE FEEL SURE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED.
WHO TOLD THE NEWSPAPERS ABOUT

THE PRIME MINISTER'S PLANS? IT MUST

HAVE BEEN SOMEONE CLOSE TO HIM.


THE THIEF MUST HAVE HAD A KEY. THE

DOOR WAS LOCKED AND NOTHING WAS

BROKEN.
OH, GOOD! WE'VE GOT MILK. MO MUST

HAVE BOUGHT SOME YESTERDAY.

CIENCIAS
DE
CLASE
PÁGINA 8
ETNAG
ED
ORDEP
MIGHT HAVE / MAY HAVE

YARF
OTARELLIHCAB
WE CAN USE MIGHT HAVE OR MAY

HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE WHEN WE

THINK IT'S POSSIBLE THAT

SOMETHING HAPPENED.
I THINK I MIGHT HAVE LEFT THE AIR

CONDITIONING ON. PLEASE CAN YOU

CHECK?
POLICE THINK THE SUSPECT MAY

HAVE LEFT THE COUNTRY USING A

FAKE PASSPORT.

CIENCIAS
DE
CLASE
PÁGINA 8
ETNAG
CAN'T HAVE /

ED
COULDN'T HAVE

ORDEP
YARF
WE USE CAN'T HAVE

OTARELLIHCAB
AND COULDN'T HAVE +

PAST PARTICIPLE WHEN

WE THINK IT'S NOT

POSSIBLE THAT

SOMETHING HAPPENED.
SHE CAN'T HAVE DRIVEN

THERE. HER CAR KEYS

ARE STILL HERE.


I THOUGHT I SAW

ADNAN THIS MORNING

CIENCIAS
BUT IT COULDN'T HAVE

BEEN HIM – HE'S IN

DE
CLASE
PÁGINA 8
GREECE THIS WEEK.

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