Exercises - Modal Verbs

1.    Fill in with can’t or mustn’t.

1.      Visitors ____________ smoke in hospital (visitantes não devem fumar em hospital).

2.      You_______________ put your dirty hands on the table.

3.              ______________ you see that I’m en love with you? (Você não consegue ver que estou apaixonada por você?)

4. They ________________ be in two places ato ne time. (Eles não conseguem estar em dois lugares ao mesmo tempo.)

5. We __________ ride our bicycles in the classroom. (Nós não devemos andar em nossa bicicleta em sala de aula).

2.    Complete the sentences by using must or should.

1.      The doctor advised me that I __________ reduce my working hours (O medico me advertiu que eu deveria reduzir minhas horas de trabalho).

2.  I have something to tell her, but I don’t know if I _________ or not.

3.  What a beautiful house! It________ belong to a very rich person.

4.  ________________ I take the left or __________________ I take the right road, please?

5.  I haven’t seen her for ages. She ____________ be very pretty.

3.    Mark with an x what the modal verbs express en each sentences.

1.      We must work hard to get the money we need.

a)      Dedução

b)      Conselho

c)      Obrigação

2.      Deborah mustn’t park her car here. It is only for disabled people.

a)      Proibição

b)      Conselho

c)      Necessidade

4.    Marque a alternative correta.

1.      (UEL-PR) He_________ go for a walk later. It depends on the weather.

a)      Must

b)      Might

c)      Will

d)     Is gong to

2.      (UEL-PR) We_______ hurry. The bus leaves in 10 minutes.

a)      Can

b)      Must

c)      Do

d)     Is going to

e)      Would

3.      (Ebero Am-SP) Mr. Anderson _________ her at hone. I ________ his car in front of his house.

a)      Could-am-sung

b)     Must-can-see

c)      Should-am-seing

d)     Ought-can-se

e)      Might am seing

4. (USJ-SP) _________________ I smoke in this room? No, you ____________ smoke here. I’s forbidden.

a)  Ought; may not

b)  Should; needn’t

c)  Can; mustn’t

d) Need; may not

e)  Have, can’t

5. (FVEST-SP). He_____________ avoid ______________ mistakes.

a)  Ought-making

b)  Must-make

c)  Shall-make

d) Needs-make

e)  Should-making