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Answer — Exercise 4

9.5 - Lookback·Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

Question

Work in pairs and read the situations. For each one, rewrite the options using a modal of deduction.

Answer

  1. a) The man must have moved recently. b) His friends might / could / may have sent mail to the old address. c) The postman can't / couldn't have delivered the letters.
  2. a) She might / could / may have been practising in an empty concert hall. b) She must have been deaf, so no one clapped. c) The audience can't / couldn't have liked the music.

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