MODALS AND MODAL PERFECTS.
Try and do your best as you won’t be allowed to do the activities more than once, but you will be
able to check your mistakes.
1) Complete the sentences with a suitable modal perfect, affirmative or negative, and the
verb in brackets.
1- It was careless to leave your bag here. Someone ............................................ (steal) it.
2- It ......................................... (be) Jerry at yesterday’s concert. He’s been out of town all week.
3- The clock stopped working. We ..................................... (have) a power cut last night.
4- I told you that you ....................................... (sign up) for the course last week. There are not
places left now!
5- You ....................................... (tell) Richard that he was an idiot. You’ve really upset him.
6- I ........................................ (study) law, but in the end I decided to become a teacher.
7- He’s not sure when he last saw her. It ................................................. (be) last week.
8- “I got you a ticket”, - “Thanks, but you ..................................... (do) that. I’ve already got one”.
2) Rewrite the sentences using the correct form of the words in brackets. Do not change
the meaning of the original sentence.
7 Is it Ok if I record the conversation? (can)
8- It wasn’t necessary for you to call the police. (need)
9- His testimony is definitely not true. (can’t)
10- It was a bad idea for you to cheat in the exam. (have)
