Advanced english practice
/B. D. Graver
- Ed. 3rd
- Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1963
- 320 p.
Introduction
Ability or potential: can, could, be able to 4 ability or potential in past time: could, could have 5 be able to Conditional could, would be able to 6 could, could have 7 would be able, would have been able 8 general characteristics: can, could
Possibility: can, could, may, might 9 present or future possibility: may, might, could 10 past possibility: may have, might have, could have (situations)
Permission: can, could, may, might 11 can, could, may, might in reported speech
Other uses of may and might 12 concessive may 13 might in requests and suggestions
14 expectation or probability: should, ought to 15 inference and logical conclusion: must, can’t (situations) 16 belief and conjecture: will, would 17 characteristic behaviour: will, would 18 inherent capacity: will, would (situations)