Danna's and Jerónimo's Lesson
Modal verbs of speculation and deduction / Vocabulary
Must
SEGURO
May/Might/Could
POSIBLE
Can't
IMPOSIBLE
Present
Modal + Base verb
Past
Modal + Have + Past Participle (V3)
She must have forgotten her book.
She might have missed the bus.
He can’t be at home.
He might be at school.
He must be tired.
What happened before?
What's happening now?
A glass of water is spilled on the floor.
A phone in the teacher's desk.
A broken window.
A dog sleeping next to an empty plate.
The cake is gone.
Modals
Conditionals
Third conditional
If I hadn't eaten so much, I wouldn't have felt sick.
She wouldn't have been tired if she had gone to bed earlier.
I wouldn’t have arrived on time if I hadn’t taken a taxi.
If I hadn’t overslept, I wouldn’t have been late.
If you had trained harder, you would have won the race.
If clause
if + past perfect
Main clause
would/could/might have + past participle (V3)
Imaginary situations in the past and their consequences.
Algo que YA ha pasado y, por lo tanto, NO podemos cambiar.
Danna's and Jerónimo's Lesson. Modals of deduction and speculation. Third Conditional. Vocabulary.
By Valentina Rodríguez Ramírez
