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- 1. David Estebanell Redondo David Farré Delgado
- 2. -Ability: The language teacher can speak with a lot of people.
- 3. Request: Can I go to play football?
- 4. -Possibility: She can be very beautiful if she wears a lot of make-up.
- 5. -Ability: Jim is able to work in a restaurant.
- 6. -Possibility: I will be able to go to the party tonight.
- 7. -Inhability: He can’t swim very well.
- 8. -Prohibition: You can’t come here with your children.
- 9. -Disbelief: This can’t be possible. For me, Jesus doesn’t exist.
- 10. -Past ability: My father could run faster than me when he was younger.
- 11. -Polite request: Could I borrow a pencil please?
- 12. -Polite suggestion: You could invite your girlfriend out for dinner.
- 13. -Possibility: Martin could meet new people going to the GYM.
- 14. -Possibility: It may/might rain today.
- 15. -Polite request: May I ask you a question?
- 16. -Advice: You should/ought to run if you don’t want to die.
- 17. -Necessity, obligation: You need to go on holiday some time.
- 18. -Necessity, obligation: Maria has to help her mother.
- 19. -Obligation, strong necessity: He must study more.
- 20. - Certainty that something is true: She must be Elena. She hasn’t changed so much.
- 21. -Prohibition: You mustn’t swim in the river of crocodiles.
- 22. -Lack of obligation/necessity: You don’t have to clean your room because the cleaner will do it.
- 23. -Lack of obligation/necessity: We needn’t to do anything.
- 24. - Formal request: Would you come tomorrow to meet my best friend?
- 25. -Offer: Would you like to come to the cinema with me.
- 26. - 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.
- 27. - Certainty that something didn’t happen: Angel couldn’t have kissed you cause he was at home with me.
- 28. - A guess about a past action: He may/might have forgotten all about you.
- 29. - Certainty of logical conclusion about an event in the past: I heard you went to Port Aventura. It must have been amazing.
- 30. - Criticism or regret after an event: You should/ought to have waited some years to go to live together.
- 31. - Criticism or regret after an event: He shouldn’t have invited his enemy to his birthday party.
- 32. - Willingness to have done something but in fact did not: I would have gone to visit my uncle to the hospital.