The key answer of exercise 6
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10.2 - What does it feel like? 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 difference in meaning (if any) between the modal verbs in italics.
Answer
- same meaning
- different → can't is a deduction about how he feels, shouldn't is a statement about how he should feel, normally does much is a statement about how he usually performs, could've done means it was possible for him to have done better
- same meaning
- different → might be is about the present, could have been is about the past
- same meaning
- different → must is much surer than might
- different → couldn't is much surer than might not
- same meaning
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