Sentence: I may visit you tomorrow.
Question sentence: May I visit you tomorrow.
Short-long answer forms
Question Answer
Can we get married? Yes, we can
Sentence: I may visit you tomorrow.
Question sentence: May I visit you tomorrow.
Short-long answer forms
Question Answer
Can we get married? Yes, we can
Would you like to drink tea?
Task 1. Here are some exercises for modal verbs with question forms:
1. Can / could/might/have to.
Can you swim?
Could you help me with this?
2. ought to/ should /may / might
May I borrow your book?
Might I suggest a different approach?
3. should/ would/must / have to
Should we finish this today?
Do you have to go so soon?
4. Should/would/ought to/need
Should we turn off the lights before we leave?
Should I call a taxi?
5. should/could/would
Would you like some coffee?
Would you mind if I open the window?
Task 3. Do the tests.
1.Why didn’t you help him? You___ have done it.
A)Must B) Can C) Could D) Were to E) was able to
2.A:__I phone you tonight?
B: Yes, you___
A)may/may B) must/might C) could/can’t D) shouldn’t /shouldn’t E) have to
/had to
3 But I___stay in England for six months, and not for a fortnight as I had planned.
A)had to B) have to C) am able to D) can E) shall have
4. I____draw a circle with a pencil only, and you?- Neither can I
A)can’t B) can C) may D) shan’t E) couldn’t
5. Last week I___go to town on business trip as the Ministry of Educational had
asked me to come.
A)had to B) might C) should D) could E) was able to
6. If one person is careless with a library book then it___be read by others.
A) can’t B) couldn’t C) may D) can E) mightn’t
7. After a book is written, it passes through the heads of very many different workers.
Each worker works carefully, for there____not be any mistakes.
A) must B) couldn’t C) could D) might E) has to
8. He tried, but ___persuade nobody.
A) could B) couldn’t C) can D) might E) won’t
9. People who know a foreign language____learn a second one easily.
A) may B) should C) mustn’t D) can E) needn’t
10. ____ I have a word with you, please?
A) may B) had to C) have to D) must E) am able to
11. I have a terrible headache. I ... do anything.
