MODAL VERBS
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Gap-fill exercise

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CAN – CAN’T - COULD – COULDN’T - DIDN’T NEED TO - MUST –
MUSTN’T - NEEDN‘T


1. You’ve got plenty of time. You hurry.
2. There’s a knock at the door. I’m expecting Paul . It be him.
3. I can’t get my phone to work. It be out of order
4. I ask you a question ?
5. That was excellent work. But I do it without you.
6. She be 35. She looks older than that.
7. I go to work on Saturdays. It’s my day off.
8. Tom has given me a letter to post. I forget to post it.
9. Ann stayed in bed this morning because she go to work.
10. He play chess when he was young.
11. You drive a car when you’re 18.
12. Jack spends the whole day just walking around. He have a job.
13. When I was in school I do a hand stand, but now I’m too old. I do one any
more.
14. My mother keeps telling me that we wash our hands before we sit down at the dinner
table.
15. You forget to turn off the lights when you go to bed.
16. When I was a child I understand adults, now that I’m an adult I
understand children.
17. Sally looks sad and worried . She have a problem with something.
18. I see your passport please.
19. He’ sees very badly, so he wear glasses all the time.
20. I take a taxi because the bus was on time.
21. He owns a very expensive house. He be a rich person.
22. I swim well when I was a child. I even won the school championships.
23. You go to the grocery store. We have some milk in the fridge.
24. I find my keys. I probably left them at my mother’s place.
25. You buy the tickets. I got two for free from dad.
26. She speak so rudely to her parents.
27. The teacher always tells us we cheat during a test.
28. I stop laughing. The joke was so funny.
29. I look at you. You’re so dirty. What were you up to ?
30. you turn down the volume ? – It’s too loud.