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The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10.1 - Feeling lucky? for the textbook New Total English Advanced - Students' Book with authors JJ Wilson with Antonia Clare from Pearson Education

Question

Work in pairs. Discuss the differences in meaning (if any) between the words in italics.

Answer

1

  • might try catching is a suggestion
  • needn't catch shows a lack of necessity
  • won't catch expresses impossibility (It is too late to catch the bus.)

2

  • Can explains possibility
  • must be able to is deduction
  • not supposed to explains the rule (No Smoking)

3

  • ought and 's supposed express an expectation
  • 's likely to is a possibility (less likely than the first two)

4

  • can't is deduction (She is younger.)
  • must is deduction (She is older.)
  • 's bound to is a deduction (The speaker thinks she is probably older than him.)

5

  • didn't need to get shows lack of necessity (It wasn't required, and we don't know if the marks were good or not.)
  • needn't have got shows lack of necessity (We got good marks, but it wasn't necessary.)
  • were supposed to get shows that according to the rules, we needed good marks

6

  • is bound to is a certain prediction
  • is supposed to is talking about what should happen
  • must is talking about deduction

7

  • Do you need to talks about necessity
  • Are you likely to talks about probability
  • Will you talks about willingness

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