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NUMBER
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AUXILIARIY
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USES
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EXAMPLE
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1
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May
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Polite request
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Cheaters may get a good job by cheating, but what then? They
havde to keep it.
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Formal permission
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May I go to the cinema?
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Less than 50% certainty
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Beyound China, the largest threat to Asia at the moment may be
the spike in creude oil prices which could lead to a resurgence of
inflationary pressures, says Rahul Ghosh, head of Asia research at Business
Monitor International.
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2
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Might
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Less than 50% certainty
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Teacher : Why is jane absent today?
Jesse : She might be ill, sir.
From the sentence we know that jesse is…that jane is ill.
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Polite request (rare)
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The idea of creating a network was something thad I’d known that is
was this difficult, i might have done something else.
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3
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Should
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Advisability
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May I go to the cinema?
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90% certainty
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Launching when we really were not ready to launch, she said. It’s
like having the wedding when you know you are not ready and you are walking
down the aisle, and you are saying, ‘I don’t know… maybe we should have
postponed it’
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4
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Ought to
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Aadvisability
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You ought to drive carefully in bad weather.
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5
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Had better
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Advisability
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You had better take you umbrella with you today.
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6
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Be supposed to
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Expectation
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7
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Be to
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strong expectation
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Personally, Chen wouldn’t take a charitable view of “gold diggers”.
But she acknowledges “it’s in human nature to be
attracted by beauty and power” and shanghai women are no exceptions.
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8
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Must
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Strong necessity
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“Confucius said that we must respect the government and they
must protect us,” say marreiros, one of Macao’s most prolific heritange
preservationists who has worked on projects including the Tap Seac Square and the Portuguese school of Macao.
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9
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Have to
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Polite request
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Would you shut the door, please?
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10
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Have got to
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necessity
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I have got to go t campus today.
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11
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Will
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100% certainty
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he will be here at 06.00
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Polite request
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Will you please shut the door?
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12
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Be going to
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Definite plan
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“I don’t like it,” he said. “I’m going lo lift you up again.”
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13
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Can
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Ability?possibility
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I can speak English.
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Culture cannot happen overnight. Rome wasn’t built in a day, but it can
be destroyed overnight
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“I think it all looks fresh and new. I can be proud of it all.
It feels strong, it feels sober, it feels exciting.
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14
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could
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Polite request
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Could you help me?
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suggestion
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I need help in math. You could talk to your teacher.
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Less than 50% certainty
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Where's John? He could be at home.
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impossibility
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That couldn't have been true!
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15
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Be able to
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ability
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I was able to help you
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16
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Would
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preference
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it will be our honor if you would like to come and give praise
for us. Thank you for your attendance and praying
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Repeated action in the past
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The suspects then reportendly gave the victims a bag filled with dead
leaves, telling them to leave and wait for 15 minutes before opening the bag,
promising that, by then, the dead leaves would be turned into money
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17
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Used to
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Repeated action in the past
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Professor Sufi and his colleagues were among the first to present
evidence fot this theory. They used credit card data to show that spending in
high-debt countries had fallen more sharply during the recession.
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18
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Shall
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Polite question to make a suggestion
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Shall I carry your bag?
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Future with “I” or “we” as subject
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I shall arrive at nine
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