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