Section_ⅢGrammar-_情态动词
语法图解
探究发现
①The topic of the poem can't be travel.
②It must be something more personal.
③It may be friendship.
④It might be the journey through life.
⑤Li Bai must have had a strange life.
⑥He can't have been interested in a normal life.
⑦He may have died when he fell out of a boat.
⑧You should read the poem sometime.
⑨Could you answer a few questions, please?
⑩I told her to stop singing, but she wouldn't listen.
[我的发现]
(1)①~⑦句表示推测,其中⑤~⑦句表示对过去所发生的事情的推测。
(2)⑧句表示说话人的意愿,意为"应该",⑨句表示请求,⑩句表示意愿。
一、情态动词表推测
(一)情态动词表推测的三种句式
1.在肯定句中一般用must(一定),may(可能),might/could(也许,或许)。
You have worked hard all day.You must be tired.
你辛苦干了一整天,一定累了。
The thought that she might be ill annoyed him.
想到她或许病了,他就不安。
2.否定句中用can't/couldn't(不可能),may not/might not(可能不)。