Language analysis course: modality 3

Multiple-choice exercise

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Choose the correct type of modality for each question.

  1. That might be the case
    1.   ability
    2.   likelihood
    3.   obligation
    4.   suggestion
  2. I have to be at work early tomorrow
    1.   advice
    2.   ability
    3.   personal
    4.   obligation
  3. That can't be him so soon
    1.   obligation
    2.   likelihood
    3.   suggestion
    4.   ability
  4. There some chance that it will break
    1.   willingness
    2.   obligation
    3.   ability
    4.   likelihood
  5. I daren't try
    1.   ability
    2.   willingness
    3.   advice
    4.   courage
  6. She ought to have arrived by now. She left hours ago.
    1.   suggestion
    2.   likelihood
    3.   possibility
    4.   obligation
  7. She refused to marry him
    1.   obligation
    2.   ability
    3.   likelihood
    4.   willingness
  8. That will be the postman at the door
    1.   likelihood
    2.   ability
    3.   suggestion
    4.   obligation
  9. It needed to be done, I'm afraid
    1.   necessity
    2.   willingness
    3.   advice
    4.   ability
  10. They weren't able to help me
    1.   obligation
    2.   likelihood
    3.   ability
    4.   willingness