English Worksheet – Modal Auxiliaries – 2

1]      We can accept our life gracefully.

          (Rewrite it using the modal auxiliary showing ‘ Compulsion’.)

Ans:  We must accept our life gracefully.

2]      We can make the necessary decision to protect it.

          (Rewrite using Modal Auxiliary showing compulsion)

Ans:  We must make the necessary decisions to protect it.

3]      This practice does lead to certain oddities.

          (Rewrite it using modal auxiliary showing ‘ probability’.)

Ans:  This practice may lead to certain oddities.     

4]      The remaining journey has to be undertaken on foot.

          (Rewrite using modal to make it obligatory)

Ans:  The remaining journey must to be undertaken on foot.

5]      He may have laughed in the company of his friends.

          (Use modal auxiliary showing certainty)

Ans:  He will have laughed in the company of his friends.

6]      Our teachers could grow enormously by learning from their students.

          (Use modal auxiliary showing advice)

Ans : Our teachers should grow enormously by learning from their student .

7]      They should be marked out from their youth for the employment of an    active type. (Use M.A. showing obligation)

Ans:- They must be marked out from their youth for the employment

8]      The Taj will be washed clean with salt free water.

          (Rewrite using Modal Auxiliary showing obligation)

Ans:  The Taj must be washed clean with salt free water.

9]      Our society may weed this malaise out from the root.

          (Use modal auxiliary showing less certainty)

Ans:  Our society may weed this malaise our form the root.

10]    We must be healthy in order to be happy.

          (Replace the modal auxiliary without changing the meaning)

Ans:  We ought to be healthy in order to be happy.

11]    She had to die I the end after all.

          (Use modal auxiliary showing obligation)

Ans:- She must die in the end after all.

12]    We worry about ‘ junk food’.

          (Rewrite using Modal Auxiliary showing compulsion)

Ans:  We must worry about junk food.

13]    Culture and arts will be strongly supported.

          (Make it less definite)

Ans:  Culture and arts might be strongly supported.

14]    Don’t be trapped by dogma. (Use M.A. Showing advice)

Ans:  You shouldn’t be trapped by dogma.

15]    It may intensity some of its woes.

          (Rewrite using Modal Auxiliary showing certainty)

Ans:  It will intensity some of its woes.

16]    Irrigation may be the most obvious response to drought.

          (Use modal auxiliary showing certainty)

Ans:  Irrigation will be the most obvious response to drought.

17]    Do realize your responsibility as educated women.

          (Use modal auxiliary showing obligation)

Ans:  You must realize your responsibility as educated women.

18]    Wind and sun may dry out the surface.

          (Rewrite using modal auxiliary showing certainty)

Ans: Wind and sun will dry out the surface.

19]    Young people should be considered for employments.

          (Rewrite using modal auxiliary showing certainty)

Ans:  Young People will be considered for employments.

20]    That may sound totally global.

          (Use modal auxiliary showing ‘certainty’)

Ans:  That will sound totally global.

21]    You could pay eight times the going rate for a ‘lightning call’.

          (Rewrite it using modal auxiliary showing ‘compulsion’.)  

Ans:  You must pay eight times the going rate for a ‘lightning call’.