[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"grammar-exercise-01a0e1ab-db89-78f7-944c-6eef3142d266":3,"grammar-exercise-lesson-019b84af-a5b2-7987-a9be-d8164de874a7":94},{"id":4,"grammarPage":5,"title":6,"instructions":7,"seoTitle":8,"seoDescription":9,"displayOrder":10,"type":11,"questions":12,"ogImageUrl":93},"01a0e1ab-db89-78f7-944c-6eef3142d266","\u002Fapi\u002Fgrammar_pages\u002F019b84af-a5b2-7987-a9be-d8164de874a7","Possibility Modals — Sort Past Guesses and Forms","Tap each tile, then tap its matching column. Follow the sorting rule on each board.","Possibility modals: sort past guesses and forms","Sort past guesses, questions and modal verb patterns into labelled groups, using short sentences about daily activities, choices and future plans.",6,"word_sort",[13,32,51,70],{"id":14,"sentenceTemplate":15,"displayOrder":16,"explanation":17,"blanks":18,"payload":19},"01a0e1ab-db89-79fb-944c-6eef31e17001","These are guesses about yesterday. Sort them by whether they describe a completed action or an activity in progress.",0,"Modal + have + past participle can suggest a completed past action. Might have been + -ing focuses on an activity possibly in progress at a particular time. For example, at midnight the baby might have been crying; this focuses on what was happening then.",[],{"items":20,"categories":31},[21,24,26,29],{"text":22,"category":23},"At ten, Jo might have been swimming.","Activity in progress",{"text":25,"category":23},"At six, I might have been cooking.",{"text":27,"category":28},"Jo may have bought a new coat.","Completed action",{"text":30,"category":28},"I might have broken the glass.",[23,28],{"id":33,"sentenceTemplate":34,"displayOrder":35,"explanation":36,"blanks":37,"payload":38},"01a0e1ab-db89-7a57-944c-6eef3219362a","Use the context in each tile to sort could have into a guess about the past or an opportunity not taken.",1,"Could have + past participle can offer an uncertain explanation. It can also describe an available opportunity that was not used; but I did not and similar explicit contrasts establish that second meaning here. For example, I could have cycled, but I chose to walk describes an unused option, not uncertainty about my journey.",[],{"items":39,"categories":50},[40,43,45,48],{"text":41,"category":42},"A guess: mice could have eaten it.","Possible explanation",{"text":44,"category":42},"A guess: rain could have damaged it.",{"text":46,"category":47},"I could have danced, but I didn’t.","Unused opportunity",{"text":49,"category":47},"We could have stayed, but we left.",[42,47],{"id":52,"sentenceTemplate":53,"displayOrder":54,"explanation":55,"blanks":56,"payload":57},"01a0e1ab-db89-7a97-944c-6eef32e42b39","Sort these questions by whether they ask for permission or ask about a possible outcome.",2,"May I questions ask for permission, not the probability of an event. Could and might can introduce direct possibility questions; might sounds more formal. For example, Might the river freeze tonight? asks about a possible outcome, while May I sit here? asks for permission.",[],{"items":58,"categories":69},[59,62,64,67],{"text":60,"category":61},"Could the lake freeze this winter?","Possible outcome",{"text":63,"category":61},"Might the weather improve tomorrow?",{"text":65,"category":66},"May I open this window?","Permission",{"text":68,"category":66},"May we take photographs here?",[61,66],{"id":71,"sentenceTemplate":72,"displayOrder":73,"explanation":74,"blanks":75,"payload":76},"01a0e1ab-db89-7acb-944c-6eef3362b36e","Sort these sentences by whether the verb pattern after the modal is correctly formed.",3,"A modal takes a base verb without to; two modals cannot be combined. For a past possibility, use have + past participle after the modal. For example, the child may have hidden the remote uses have plus the past participle hidden, not hid.",[],{"items":77,"categories":92},[78,81,83,86,88,90],{"text":79,"category":80},"The class might start at nine.","Correct modal pattern",{"text":82,"category":80},"The wind could have broken a branch.",{"text":84,"category":85},"The class might to start at nine.","Incorrect modal pattern",{"text":87,"category":85},"The wind could have broke a branch.",{"text":89,"category":80},"We will probably need more chairs.",{"text":91,"category":85},"We will might need more chairs.",[80,85],"\u002Fuploads\u002Fimages\u002Fgpimg_9a0f6918-eed2-4c3f-8d5f-f838693c7f76_hero.webp?v=1790492531",{"title":95,"slug":96,"language":97,"level":98},"Might, May, Will probably (Modals)","might-may-will-probable-modals","en","B1"]