MODAL WORDS Exercise I. Point out all the modal words and define their meaning.
1. Over the ridge she would find him. Surely she would find him. (Wells) 2. He had
stopped their mouths, maybe, but at what a cost. (Galsworthy) 3. She s just engaged to him.
Of course she is frightfully excited about it, and naturally he wants her to come away and
marry. [Wells) 4. Winifred could barely get a word out of him, he ate nothing, but he
certainly took his liquor and his face kept getting whiter. (Galsworthy) 5. She was probably
dissatisfied just as he was. (Dreiser) 6. Knowledge of something kept from her made him,
no doubt, unduly sensitive. (Galsworthy) 7. The Buccaneer, watching him go so sadly, felt
sorry perhaps for his behaviour to the old man. (Galsworthy) 8. Thorp was actually too sick
to see anybody. (Heym) 9. "Allow me, Sir, the honour of grasping your hand — permit me,
Sir, to shake it," said the grave man. "Certainly," said Mr. Pickwick. (Dickens) 10. My dear
Ma'am, you deserve a very excellent husband—you do indeed. (Dickens) 11. Bertine and I
are just on our way home, truly. (Dreiser) 12. He saw Fleur, standing near the door, holding
a handkerchief which the boy had evidently just handed to her.. (Galsworthy)