Kamis, 12 April 2012

Modal Auxiliaries and Similar Expression


AUXILIARY USESS PRESENT/FUTURE PAST
May 3) Less than 50%   Vassos Shiarly said the government is ready to take any 
    additional austerity measures that may be required to meet the target 
2) Formal Permission May spark increasing concern regardling the pace of  
  the ongoing U.S. economic expansion.  
Might 1) Less than 50%   President Obama promised to double exports over the next
     five years. The U.S. might actually meet that target.
2) Polite request Is The lending agency might need as   
   large a boost in financial resources ?  
Should 1) Advisability   China should have guarded against a hard landing  
    through fiscal policies designed to support consumption.
2) 90% certainty  it also said that China's central bank should   
  resist cutting interest rates for the time being.  
Ought to 1) Advisability   they ought to learn from these mistakes and progressively 
    adopt beliefs consistent with economics instead. 
2) 90% certainty We ought to think and plan ahead  
   for other branches of science.  
Had Better 1) Advisability with They had better have a quality of being desirable and   
    threat of bad result have enough of value to be saleable.  
Be Suppoed to 1) Expectation in theory all these different variants are supposed to be   
  committed to the flourishing of the individual.  
Be to 1) Strong expectation the suppliers of credit, the bankers, must   
  be to blame.  
Must 1) Strong necessity who must court the votes of the 99 %  
   for their own re-election  
Have to 1) Necessity you have to go back only one step to find the cause.   
2) Lack of necessity you don't have to go back only one step to    
  find the cause.  
Have got to 1) Necessity we have got to realize they are not just   
  women's issues   
Will 1) 100% certainty  the World Bank, will hold their spring meetings  
   in Washington at the end of next week.  
2) Willingness discussions will be preceded by a meeting of   
  finance ministers  
Be going to 1) 100% certainty The business recovery is not going to falter  
2) definite plan  I'm going to go where the jobs are  
can 1) possibility We can ignore the financial mess in Europe and be assured it  
2) impossibility We can't be ignore the financial mess in   
  Europe and be assured it  
Could 2) Polite request could you first outline what you mean by liberalism?  
1) Past ability    I'm so glad we could clear that up last week
be able to 1) ability  insurance companies will no longer be able to   
  deny coverage based on preexisting conditions  
Would 1) Polite request Would you want to give me an economic science?  
2) Preference 10 million college students would get their financial   
  aid cut by $1,000  
used to 1) Repeated action    Obama used to talk about economy in his politic activity
    in the past    
shall 1) Polite question to Shall he explain about our economy activity?  
    make a suggestion    
2) Future with "I" or I shall explain about ecomoy activity  
    "we" as subject