Leave It To Beaver

MODALS * PRACTICE: Wally's Big Date


JUNE * WARD * WALLY * BEAVER

  • Choose ONE character from "Leave It to Beaver" to write about.
  • Include the nine meanings/forms of modals listed below. But do not just answer these questions in a list! Organize your ideas into PARAGRAPHS. Not every sentence will contain a modal.
  • Discuss the five questions below.

  • "probability" (is it true? how certain are you?)
  • "advisibility" (is it a good idea? how much choice is there?)
  • future


    In your paragraph, try to include at least one example of each of these special forms:

    passive modal
    negative modal
    progressive modal
    two modal ideas in one verb phrase


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    Ann Salzmann
    Intensive English Institute
    University of Illinois