... modals as can, may, must With all these reasons, I made up my mind to choose and to go further into the topic: A contrastive analysis of the meanings expressed via the modalverbs can, may, must ... implication of teaching English modalverbsto Vietnamese learners of English Can, may, must are of various meanings Sometimes can and may or must and havetohave the same meanings in expressing ... many languages consist of verbs having modal meanings Taking to believe, to fear, to regret in English as examples, they havemodal meanings but they are not modalverbs The same thing happens...
... said that, he must be mistaken If he said that, he can t be telling the truth MUSTHAVETO a) HAVETO dùng thay cho MUST hình thức mà MUST We shall haveto hurry if we are going to catch the twelve ... OUGHTTO thay should They oughtto (should) pay the money He oughtto (should) be ashamed of himself OUGHTTO dùng để diễn tả gần đúng, (strong probability) If Alice left home at 9:00, she oughtto ... fire MODALVERBSOUGHTTO – DARE – NEED Động từ khuyết thiếu OUGHTTOOUGHTTO động từ khuyết thiếu có Hiện (simple present) Nó có nghĩa “nên”, gần giống với should Trong hầu hết trường hợp OUGHT...
... you can smoke on the upper deck, but you can' t smoke downstairs CAN diễn tả điều xảy đến (possibility) Trong câu hỏi câu cảm thán CAN có nghĩa ỌIs it possible ?Ú Can it be true? It surely can' t ... từ khuyết thiếu CANCAN động từ khuyết thiếu, có Hiện Quá khứ đơn Những hình thức khác ta dùng động từ tương đương be able toCAN dùng trợ động từ để hình thành số cách nói riêng CAN COULD có nghĩa ... already! CANNOT dùng để diễn tả điều khó xảy (virtual impossibility) He can' t have missed the way I explained the route carefully Khi dùng với động từ tri giác (verbs of perception) CAN cho ý...
... said that, he must be mistaken If he said that, he can t be telling the truth MUSTHAVETO a) HAVETO dùng thay cho MUST hình thức mà MUST We shall haveto hurry if we are going to catch the twelve ... OUGHTTO thay should They oughtto (should) pay the money He oughtto (should) be ashamed of himself OUGHTTO dùng để diễn tả gần đúng, (strong probability) If Alice left home at 9:00, she oughtto ... VI MODALVERBSOUGHTTO – DARE – NEED Động từ khuyết thiếu OUGHTTOOUGHTTO động từ khuyết thiếu có Hiện (simple present) Nó có nghĩa “nên”, gần giống với should Trong hầu hết trường hợp OUGHT...
... necessity I must go to class today You must not open that door Mary isnt in class She must be sick(present only) I haveto go to class today (I had to go to class yesterday Mary musthave been ... learning: can, could, may, have to, and must 1.3 SCOPE OF THE STUDY Within the limitation of a graduation thesis, I would like to deal with modalverbs can, could, may, haveto and must and semi- ... Vietnamese modal auxiliaries canhave many meanings in English For example Modal verb "phải '' in Vietnam may be close in meaning to must, should, oughtto , in English and modal" " close to can, ...
... Should Tom zip up his jacket? Ought Tom to zip up his jacket? and only should not or shouldn't is used in negative sentences: Tom should not zip up his jacket Tom ought not to zip up ... drive, you haveto be careful What you haveto when you drive? 16 The police are going to start working harder to prevent crime What are the police going to do? 17 In Question 16, what can you call ... videotape to try to them You should your backpack ; otherwise all your books are going to fall out 161 The two countries have a history of border clashes, but things have ...
... “ENOUGH”: We have a lot of sandwiches We canhave them for lunch You’re 14 years old You can t drive a car She is a good student She will be able to pass ... I get used to the life in the city I am used to the noise and busy city traffic I’m no longer afraid of crossing the road However, I don’t really like to live in the city I prefer to live in ... twelve, my family moved to the city At first, everything was strange and difficult to me Life in the city is always busy and the people are often in a hurry Lots of bikes, motorbikes, cars and buses...
... might not (mightn’t) Must Mustn’t, Needn’t: a Must: cần thiết phải làm You haven’t got much time You must hurry b Mustn’t: cần thiết không làm You can tell Tom what I said but he mustn’t tell anybody ... he doesn’t tell anybody else) c Needn’t – Inf.: = don’t / doesn’t need to: Không cần You have got plenty of time You don’t needto hurry (You needn’t hurry) B Modal Perfect (động từ khiếm khuyết ... có HAVE + P.P theo sau Ta có Modal Perfect sau đây: Could have + P.P: (diễn tả khả có khứ, chưa sử dụng tới) Couldn’t have + P.P: Tất nhiên (diễn tả hành động hiển nhiên làm được) Should have...
... of oughtto (cf Kennedy (2002)), which amounts to a should/ oughtto ratio of 19:1. Similarly, in Collins’s (2009) study (involving different corpora), the ratio of shouldtooughtto appears to ... likely to be should compared to when there is an adverb before the modal (as in You probably {should / ought to} ignore this), in which case of course the likelihood of that modal being oughtto ... the) modal (as in We {shouldn’t / oughtn’t to} this), that modal is almost three times as likely to be distinctions.indd 110-111 111 should compared to when the modality is positive (as in We {should...