Types of modality: test

Multiple-choice test
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Choose the best answer. In some cases, there are two possible correct responses.

  1. It's my turn to pay, isn't it?
    1.   dynamic
    2.   epistemic
    3.   deontic
    4.   alethic
  2. May I enquire who you are?
    1.   epistemic
    2.   alethic
    3.   dynamic
    4.   deontic
  3. He might be there already.
    1.   deontic
    2.   epistemic
    3.   alethic
    4.   dynamic
  4. If you would follow me, please.
    1.   deontic
    2.   epistemic
    3.   dynamic
    4.   alethic
  5. Pure modal auxiliary verbs cannot co-occur in English.
    1.   dynamic
    2.   epistemic
    3.   deontic
    4.   alethic
  6. He seems to be getting old rather quickly.
    1.   deontic
    2.   dynamic
    3.   alethic
    4.   epistemic
  7. We have to arrive early to get a seat.
    1.   epistemic
    2.   dynamic
    3.   deontic
    4.   alethic
  8. Silence: Examination in Progress
    1.   dynamic
    2.   alethic
    3.   epistemic
    4.   deontic
  9. Patently, that's false.
    1.   deontic
    2.   alethic
    3.   epistemic
    4.   dynamic
  10. Could you speak French before you lived in Paris?
    1.   dynamic
    2.   deontic
    3.   epistemic
    4.   alethic
  11. Could I ask a question, please?
    1.   epistemic
    2.   dynamic
    3.   deontic
    4.   alethic
  12. You ought to telephone your mother. She'll be worried sick.
    1.   alethic
    2.   epistemic
    3.   deontic
    4.   dynamic
  13. I'll cook, if you like.
    1.   alethic
    2.   dynamic
    3.   epistemic
    4.   deontic
  14. I really must get this toothache seen to.
    1.   deontic
    2.   alethic
    3.   epistemic
    4.   dynamic
  15. That can't be his mother; she's too young.
    1.   epistemic
    2.   deontic
    3.   alethic
    4.   dynamic