Sunday 7 September 2008

Passive Modal Verbs

http://www.englishpage.com/modals/modalforms.html

I learned more modal verbs from another website from Jim's blog. It made me understand about modal forms that I have never known before, especially passive modals. For example :

Modal Simple
I could swim at the beach.

Passive Modal Simple
The room should be cleaned once a day.

Modal Continuous
I could be swimming at the beach right now.

Passive Modal Continuous
The room should be being cleaned now.

Modal Perfect
I could have swum at the beach yesterday.

Passive Modal Perfect
The room should have been cleaned yesterday.

Modal Perfect Continuous
I could have been swimming at the beach instead of working in the office.

Passive Modal Perfect Continuous
The room should have been being cleaned but nobody was there. (Rare form)

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