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Modals

MODALS: CAN, MAY, MUST, HAVE TO

CAN	MUST
1) Ability I can drive 2) Possibility I can come	1) Obligation I must do my homework. 2) For an opinion that you think has a good possibility of being true. Look at his uniform. He must be a policeman.
MAY	HAVE TO
1) Probability She may come tomorrow. 2) In a very polite question May I open the window?	1) In the affirmative : HAVE TO has a meaning similar to MUST. I have to go to the school. 2) In the negative: HAVE TO has a different meaning: 'you don't need to do that' It's Sunday! I don't have to go to school.

Fill in the gaps with CAN/CAN'T, MAY/MAY NOT, MUST/MUSTN'T, HAVE TO/DON'T HAVE TO

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JOHN: ' you come to the match this afternoon?'
PETER: 'I'm sorry. I . I wash my father's car.'
JOHN: 'But it's raining! Don't waste your time: you wash it! It will be cleaned by the rain!'
PETER: 'I know, but my parents say the rain stop soon. And I go out with you tonight because I go to my grandmother's birthday party and I come back late.'

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