Fill in the blanks with appropriate modal auxiliary verbs. Each question is followed by three suggested answers. Choose the most appropriate one.
Help! He ……………………………… be drowned, if no one saves him.
Correct!
Wrong!
2. …………………………………. I send an application?
Correct!
Wrong!
3. Pay your fees in time lest you ………………………………. be fined.
Correct!
Wrong!
4. If I were you, I ……………………………….. do it.
Correct!
Wrong!
5. That ………………………….. have been a shooting star.
Correct!
Wrong!
6. ……………………………….. you like to go to the pictures tonight?
Correct!
Wrong!
7. I think it ……………………………… rain tonight.
Correct!
Wrong!
8. ………………………….. I wait any longer?
Correct!
Wrong!
9. ………………………………… you be able to visit us tomorrow?
Correct!
Wrong!
10. In my younger days I ………………………………. run four miles at a stretch.
Correct!
Wrong!
Answers
1. Help! He will be drowned if no one saves him.
2. Should I send an application?
3. Pay your fees in time, lest you should be fined.
4. If I were you, I wouldn’t do it.
5. That must have been a shooting star.
6. Would you like to go to the pictures tonight?
7. I think it will rain tonight.
8. Should I wait any longer?
9. Will you be able to visit us tomorrow?
10. In my younger days, I could run four miles at a stretch.
