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