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Détails Le tableau ci-dessus n'est qu'un résumé des auxiliaires modaux. En voici les détails des différents modaux: Can, Could & Be Able to Can est employé pour parler de ce qui est possible. He can play the piano. May & Might May est employé pour parler de la possibilité. It may rain. Must & Have to Must est employé pour les obligations dites 'internes', c'est-à-dire que l'obligation vient de celui qui parle ou écrit: il est l'autorité. Teacher: "You must do your homework for next Thursday". Il ne faut pas confondre mustn't et don't have to: le premier concerne une obligation négative (quelque chose qu'on ne devrait pas faire), tandis que le dernier parle de l'absence d'une obligation (quelque chose qu'on n'est pas obligé de faire.) Ought to & Should Pour donner un conseil, on emploie soit ought to, soit should. You ought to save your money instead of spending every penny you earn. Had better & Needn't Pour donner un conseil, on peut employer had better. Pratique

Shades of Modality “Writers should learn to properly use auxiliary modal verbs.” Even if a reader has no idea what a modal verb is, this statement is more likely to agitate than inform, and it would start any other article on a sour note. Lurking at the beginning of the sentence, the modal verb “should” is responsible for this agitation. What are Auxiliary and Modal Verbs? Auxiliary verbs are “helper verbs” used in combination with other verbs to assist in stating tone, tense, condition/state, voice or mood. Nobody likes to be told what to do. Tricky Little Modals <a href=" src= alt="Grammar.net" /></a> [Infographic provided by <a href=" You can download high resolution poster here. Embed this image to your site: Grammar.net Modal Verbs List Shifting the subject from reader to writer is one way to diffuse the commanding tone. Must “You must come with us.” Related posts:

Understanding modals of necessity: must, have got to, have to [infographic] Buy this poster Like other modal verbs, modals of necessity are guilty of strange behavior. Learn about their feisty habits with this infographic. What is a Modal Verb? <a href=" src= alt="Grammar.net" /></a> [Infographic provided by <a href=" <a href=" src= alt="Grammar.net" /></a> [Infographic provided by <a href=" Click here to download high resolution poster. Prohibition: “You can’t eat these.”Obligation: “I have to call home later.”Necessity: “They must leave immediately.”Permission: “Rachel can play outside if she likes.”Ability: “My dog can swim.” Modals of Necessity There are three: have to, have got to and must. “Because the roads were bad, he had to leave early.”

Stay With Me by Ayòbámi Adébáyò review – a big-hearted Nigerian debut | Fiction The childless protagonist of Ayòbámi Adébáyò’s Baileys-longlisted debut is so desperate to get pregnant that she breastfeeds a goat. It happens at the top of “the Mountain of Jaw Dropping Miracles” in southwest Nigeria, surrounded by drooling bearded men in green robes whose leader, Prophet Josiah, has been recommended to the barren Yejide by a pregnant customer at her hairdressing salon. The goat must be white, he has instructed, and it must be pulled up the mountain single-handedly by the miracle seeker, arriving at the summit “without wound, blemish or a speck of another colour”. There follows some frenzied chanting, singing and dancing around the swaddled animal beneath a blazing sun, until eventually, despite her initial scepticism, as Yejide relates, “the goat appeared to be a newborn and I believed”. It’s a comic scene, and it reminds me of the kind of high superstition my Nigerian mother often brings to bear on the subject of having children.