Cover of the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise Practice 1

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 08 - Language focus 2 for the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education

Question

Rewrite the underlined words below using a past modal of possibility. Start with the words in brackets.

Answer

  1. They must have sent Eleanor away deliberately.
  2. The doctor must have sent a letter with Eleanor ...
  3. They can't have removed Mrs Redwood's signature ...
  4. They might not have taken Eleanor back to room 342. It might have been a different room.
  5. Someone else must have seen Mrs Redwood ...
  6. The British Embassy can't have checked Eleanor's story ...
  7. Eleanor might have invented the whole story.