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