Question

Заполните пропуски глаголами can, may, must, should, ought to, need, have to, to be to. 1. At this time Strickland … have been nearly forty-seven.

2. “Real friends … have everything in common,” Miller used to say.

3. Surely he … have stayed with her on her birthday!

4. She … never have married him1

5. You … not bother with these things here for you are among friends.

6. If anything … happen to me, my wife will be left very badly off.

7. That young American chap … have overheard something too.

8. Tell him I’d wait twenty years for him if I … to.

9. This … be the very last dinner he would ever eat at Ella’s.

10. He … go to business, why … other people stay in bed merely because it was dark and foggy?

11. I … have insisted on going by myself and who knows I … have got a job when I got to London.

12. You … not be afraid. I never cry.

13. Why … you and I talk about it?

14. He suggested that I … stay with him for a few days so that he … show me something of the surrounding country.

15. It … be a tiny path, or it … extend for miles.

16. I think I … find some girl, who’ll just look after me.

17. Well, my dear fellow, you … not eat as if you were going to eat it all.

18. Harris said there … have been twenty people following him in all.

19. It was of himself and of his own future, that he … think.

20. It’s not my secret. But I’ll see what I … do, because I think both you and John … be told.

21. I … say that you … have shown more consideration.

22. It’s absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one … read and what one … not.

Answer 1

1.can

2.must

3.should

4.should

5.need

6.is to

7.may

8.should

9.could

10.have to, can

11.should, must

12.should

13.need

14.might, is to

15.can, can

16.may

17.should

18.could

19.must

20.should, need

21.can, could

22.can, can

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