The key to exercise solutions in chapter 6.1 - The time of my life for the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education
Question
Check what you know. Complete the table with the modal and semi-modal verbs underlined in sentences 1-6 below.
Look at the phrases in bold and think about their meanings. Which category in the table are they closest to?
Answer
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b)
are able to → ability / lack of ability
be allowed to → permission
make someone → obligation (strong); let someone do → permission
be supposed to → obligation (weak) (often for something not fulfilled)
manage to → ability / lack of ability (usually when something is difficult)