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TODAY’S lesson, we will be talking about using past, present, and future tenses accurately in sentences.
Enjoy the class!
PAST-PRESENT-FUTURE
Simple conversations using the appropriate words -using modal auxiliaries to make sentences
Must:
Must indicates necessity.
Examples:
I must leave now. He must study hard.
More Examples:
1. I must leave now.
2. He must study hard.
3. Alex must go home by 6.00 pm.
Have to:
‘Have to’ has a similar meaning to must but implies less urgency.
Examples:
1. I have to leave now.
2. He has to study hard.
3. Alex has to go by 6.00 pm.
4. I had to leave then. (past)
5. He had to study hard to pass the exam. (past)
Should:
‘Should’ indicates obligation and probability.
Examples:
1. You should come home early.
2. You should not smoke at all.
3. I should visit my parents more often.
4. There should be an extra key for the lock in the drawer. (probability)
5. He should have reached by now. (probability)
6. I should have done that. (obligation in the past)
‘Ought to’ and ‘Had better’:
‘Ought to’ and ‘had better’ sometimes replace should.
Examples:
1. You ought to come home early.
2. We ought to have taken a taxi. (Past)
3. We had better leave. (Had better is generally used in spoken English.)
4. I think parents ought to give children more freedom. — classnotes.ng
(Had better won’t be appropriate here.)
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