英語流利說懂你英語 Level6 Unit2 Part2 Listening - Talking about Modals 2

Here is the second set of modals.

These modals express degrees of logical force or social expectation.

must/had better/should/ought to

Note that none of them has a past tense or weakened form.

The first one "must" indicates logical or social necessity.

It expresses the strongest logical or social force.

The modals "should" and "ought to" assert that something is probable or expected, but not necessary.

The modal "had better" expresses advisability.

In other words, if someone had better do something, they should do it or there may be negative consequences.

Therefore, "had better" has the feeling of a threat, as in " You had better be there.".

This isn't the same as "You should do it.", which means you're expected to do it, but without an implied threat if you don't.


One interesting rule is that no more than one modal can be used with any verb.

There're no exceptions to this rule.

Therefore, it's incorrect to say "He will must be there.".

To avoid breaking this rule, there're other words that have the same meaning but are not modals.

In the case of "must", for example, we use "have to", as in "He will have to be there.".

Similarly, we cannot say "He may can come.".

Instead, we say "He may be able to come."


One last thing to know about modals,

They use the same form regardless of what the subject is.

If the grammatical subject is I, it, we or they, we use the same form, "will".

We would never say "He wills be there.".

But with non-modal form, such as "have to", we must change the form to match the subject.

"He has to be there." and "I have to be there.".


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