Practice Set(Exercise) - Modals - Semi-modals

 TB-XII

Modals and Semi-modals

 

I. Fill in with modal auxiliaries:

1. He ------------ drive a car.

2. The rich ------------ help the poor.

3. It ------------ rain today.

4. I ------------ speak English.

5. ------------ I go to the library?

6. ------------ you wait for a moment please?

7. ------------ I go to the cinema?

8. I ------------ go to the supermarket today.

9. ------------ I carry your bag?

10. You ------------ read the new novel by Bhagat.

11. You ------------ drive carefully on the highway.

12. ------------ you please shut the door?

13. I think it ------------ rain on Friday.

14. ------------ you shut the door please?

15. Sometimes he ------------ bring me some flowers.

16. The candidates ----answer five out of ten questions.

17. Thou-----not steal.

18. Thomas ----------- finish this work by Monday.

19. --------------- I go to school today?

20. I wish you --------- tell me the truth.

21. Poonam ----------- not catch the bus yesterday.

22. People who live glass houses -----not throw stones.

23. You --------------- not go to the market as I have brought vegetables.

24. -------- you have taken all this trouble?

25. You --------------- be joking.

26. I tried to climb up the tree, but --------------- not.

27. Hima Das ran so fast that she --------win the medal.

28. You ---- lead a horse to water, but you ---make it drink.

29. I --------------- like to have a cup of coffee.

30. I wish you----listen to me

31. If I were you, I --------------- not behave like that.

32. I --------------- never tell a lie.

33. My uncle --------------- have reached by now.

34. The patient is crucial. He -----be taken to the hospital.

35. He --------------- come today.

36. You --------------- follow the traffic rules.

37. He --------------- play the match.

38. Had the doctor come in time, he --------------- have saved the patient.

39. All citizens-----obey the laws of the land.

 

II. Fill in with semi-Modal Auxiliaries:

1. You ------------ submit your assignment on time.

2. We ------------ help the needy.

3. My grandfather ---- walk for long hours when he was young.

4. I ------------ to buy a packet of milk.

5. I ------------ not go out in the dark.

6. We ------------ hire some furniture for the party.

7. How ------------ you enter my room?

8. I --------------- play hockey when I was a student.

9. You --------------- not attend my class.

10. You --------------- not waste time on it.

11. I _____ drink coffee when I was young.

12. How --------------- you open my bag?

13. My grandfather---visit this temple when he was young.