Assignment 16The Modal Verbs are also used to express: probability, supposition; doubt, astonishment; uncertainty; reproach; criticism of a past action; absence of necessity in the past (see the first chart). When the Modal Verbs express these notions, the main patterns of them are those presented in the sentences below. Study the patterns. Make sure you are familiar with all of them and you know howto translate the sentences from English into Russian.
Somebody must know the goods produced by this company. You must be reading a very interesting article now. You do not pay attention to anything else. Italian bankers must have played an important part in financing the English Crown in the13th and 14th centuries. He must have beenworking for thiscompany for ten years. He can’t have persuadedthe management to Jet him demonstrate his blendof coffee there. He couldn’t have persuaded the management to let him demonstrate his blend of coffee. Can he have persuaded the management to let him demonstrate his blend of coffee there? Could he have persuaded the management to let him demonstrate his blend of coffee there? A limited amount of money income will not permit the purchase of all the goods services the consumer may / might like to buy. Where is he? - He may / might be going to the university at the moment. The bank may / might have accumulated a lot of money. He may/might have been doing economics for three years. Two days ago, he went to the bookshop but he didn't buy me the book which I needed badly. He might have bought me the book. You should have paid all the taxes. She shouldn’t have behaved like that. If there were a significantly better way of arranging the learning and working periods of life, some society ought to have long since discovered it. He ought not to have violated therules. You needn’t have gone to theuniversity yesterday. They have cancelled allthe lectures.
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