Modal auxiliaries | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7 | #8 |

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[Modal Auxiliaries #1]
Focus: Use and meaning of modal auxiliaries

1) Search for the modal "could" (sort concordance by LEFT word); which of the following meanings does it express in line 2 of the hits?
permission
possibility
probability

2) Search for "can" in the corpus (sort concordance by keyword); which of the following meanings does it express in line 3 of the hits?
ability
permission
request

3) Search for "might" (sort concordance by keyword); which of the following meanings does it express in line 4 of the hits?
possibility
permission
either

4) Search for "may" in the corpus (sort concordance by keyword); in which line has "may" been used as a modal auxiliary for the first time?
line 1
line 7
line 8

5) Search for "need" in the corpus (sort concordance by keyword); in which line has "need" been used as a noun for the first time?
line 1
line 4
line 5

6) Search for "must" in the corpus (sort concordance by left word); which of the following meanings does it express in line 5 of the hits?
obligation
ability
probability

7) Search for "must" in the corpus (sort concordance by right word); which of the following meanings does it express in line 6 of the hits?
obligation
ability
permission

8) Is modal "ought" typically used with or without "to"?
with "to"
without "to"
equally common


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