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Expectation: Be Supposed to / Should……………………………………….91
Ability: Can, Know how to, and Be able to……………………………………92
Possibility: Can, May, Might…………………………………………………..92
Requests and Responses with Modals……………………………………....92
Polite Requests with Would you mind………………………………………..93
Making Suggestions: Let’s, Why don’t, Shall I / We…………………………94
Using Would to Express a Repeated Action in the Past…………………….94
Expressing the Past: Necessity, Advisability, Expectation…………………94
Expressing Past Ability………………………………………………………...95
Degrees of Certainty: Present Time………………………………………….95
Degrees of Certainty: Present Time Negative……………………………....96
Degrees of Certainty: Past Time……………………………………………...96
Degrees of Certainty: Future Time……………………………………………97
Progressive Forms of Modals………………………………………………...97
Combining Modals with Phrasal Modals……………………………………..97
Expressing Preference: Would rather………………………………………..98
VIII. UNDERSTANDING, USING, AND TESTNG ACTIVE AND PASSIVE
VOICE…………………………………………………………………………101
Active vs. Passive…………………………………………………………….102
Tense Forms of the Passive…………………………………………………103
Using the Passive…………………………………………………………….103
The Passive Form of Modals and Phrasal Modals………………………...103
Stative (Non-Progressive) Passive…………………………………………104
Common Stative (Non-Progressive) Passive Verbs + Prepositions……..104
The Passive with Get………………………………………………………...105
-ed / -ing Adjectives…………………………………………………………..105
IX. UNDERSTANDING, USING, AND TESTING NOUN CLAUSES AND
ADJECTIVE CLAUSES……………………………………………………..109
Introduction……………………………………………………………………………110
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