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Might and May (Modals)

Average: 3.5 (78 votes)

'Might' is used mostly to express possibility. English speakers use 'might' to make suggestions or requests, although this is more common in British English and could be seen as extremely formal.
'Might' is also used in conditional sentences.

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I confuse on how to use the correct word.

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2) Talk By Lembaga Lektrik on Voltage Sag

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Should (Modals)

Average: 3.6 (31 votes)

Should is used to give advice and to make recommendations. It is also used to express obligation and expectation.

Recommendation: When you go to London, you should go to the theatre.
Advice: You should try to focus more on your writing skills. Advice
Obligation: I should be going now. It's getting late.
Expectation: You should have understood the text by now.

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Have to and Must (Modals)

Average: 3.4 (34 votes)

Have to and must are being looked at together because of the inter-changeability when used for certain functions and the confusion caused when they cannot be interchanged for others.

Have to

'Have to' is used to express certainty, necessity, and obligation.
This has to be the right place. We are not lost. Certainty
The glue has to be left to dry for 24 hours. Necessity
I have to leave early. Obligation

Could (Modals)

Average: 3.4 (83 votes)

'Could' is used to express: possibility, past ability, and to make suggestions and requests. 'Could' is also used in conditional sentences as the conditional form of 'can'.

Can (Modals)

Average: 3.6 (128 votes)

The modal 'can' is a commonly used modal verb in English. It is used to express; ability, opportunity, a request, to grant permission, to show possibility or impossibility. It is this large amount of functions and the fact that ‘can’ is replaced by other modals when it is used to express future or past time that often lead to certain errors.

Here are some examples of 'can':

So and Such

Average: 4.4 (42 votes)

So + adjective

'So' when used with an adjective, shows extreme situations. This form is used mostly in speech:
The music is so loud! Why don’t they turn it down?
The hotel was so good. It was worth every cent.

Help... HELP... HELP... PLEASE URGENT...!

(a) correct the following sentences :
(Sleepy He was so afraid that his knees knocked one another.
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(ii) They are more kinder to aniomals than to children
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(iii) This photograph is the best of the two.
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(iv) Give me them books.
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(v) I have visited England last August.
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(Cool Rewrite the sentences as directed :
(Sleepy He drove a car. ( Change into passive voice.)
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(ii) It is a docile animal. (Add a question tag.)
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(iii) The manager said, "I am very busy ". (Change into indirect speech)
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Quick Past Perfect Tense Review

Average: 3.9 (13 votes)

We use the past perfect to show that an action happened before another action in the past. It can also show that an action happened before a specific time in the past.

When we arrived at the station, the train had already left.
Had Carol studied Russian before she moved to Russia?

We form the past perfect with: had/hadn’t + past participle
+ She had seen the film before.
-   She had not seen the film before.