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A&L Modals - Coggle Diagram

- - - - We could visit Europe each year before the disaster
        I could sleep for ten hours per night five years ago
  - - - We can make the mindmap
        I can take Yegor to the kindergarten in a stroller
  - - - We weren't able to understand the rules of Georgian banks last year
  - - - I'm able to do this task, but I wouldn't like to
        You can't break the rules [prohibition]
- - - - You can't fail your driving exam. You have prepared so hard.
  - - - He doesn't text me. He must be asleep
  - - - Electricity can't have been cut for all day.
  - - - His order hasn't been delivered yet. He must have not filled a custom declaration.
- - - - I can walk even till morning
    - - We could swim every day when we were at sea
    - - He was allowed to eat one portion of ice-cream
  - - - You can eat cookies only when I am not at home
    - - You may not store your bike in the hallway
      - You mustn't eat my food from my dish
  - - - Can I pet your dog?
    - - May I check your visa?
- - - - Only for present and future. When the necessity comes from incide the speaker
    - - For all tenses. When the necessity comes from outcide the speaker or whet others decide for him
        Forms its questions and negations with do/does and did
    - - More informal than have to. For obligation on a single occasion
    - - Duty, it's the right thing to do but people don't always do it
    - - Necessity
  - - - Not necessery in the present or future
    - - It wasn't necessary in the past and we may not know if the action happened or not
    - - We know that something happened in the past althouhg if was not necessary