By Juliana Moriones
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Perfect
Modals
They are also called helping verbs or auxiliary verbs that are used to indicate modality in the past.
A perfect modal is the combination of:
Modal + Have + Main verb
Past participle
PERFECT
MODALS
SHOULD
HAVE
May
HAVE
MIGHT
COULD
HAVE
HAVE
MUST
HAVE
EXPRESS REGRETS
EXPRESS POSSIBILITIES
EXPRESS POSSIBILITIES
EXPRESS POSSIBILITIES
DRAW TO CONCLUSIONS
To feel bad about something you did or didn't do
To express a small possibility in the past→
To express a small possibility in the past→
To talk about past abilities or opportunities→
To express something we are almost sure that happened or didn't happen→
The meaning changes according to the modal you use.
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to practice
They shouldn't have swum in that area
Sharks must have been very huuuuungry
To make negative sentences use the negative form of the modal verb, not the auxiliary have..
I
WE
YOU
THEY
SHE
HE
IT
Subject
SHOULD
MAY
MIGHT
COULD
MUST
Auxiliary modal
traveled
Affirmative
Verb in past participle
HAVE
Auxiliary have