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Modals of Deduction Worksheet

This document is a worksheet containing 10 sentences with blanks to be filled in with "can't", "might", or "must". The sentences are about making deductions or inferences about situations using modal verbs, such as what someone's mother must be like based on their cooking, what could be making someone tired, where someone's car keys indicate they must be, what someone might know about based on their theater attendance, what someone must not know much about based on their short time at a company, where missing gloves might be located, who a phone call might be from based on calling time, how drunk someone must be after drinking all afternoon, what a couple can't think of a film if they leave early, and how rich a couple

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Modals of Deduction Worksheet

This document is a worksheet containing 10 sentences with blanks to be filled in with "can't", "might", or "must". The sentences are about making deductions or inferences about situations using modal verbs, such as what someone's mother must be like based on their cooking, what could be making someone tired, where someone's car keys indicate they must be, what someone might know about based on their theater attendance, what someone must not know much about based on their short time at a company, where missing gloves might be located, who a phone call might be from based on calling time, how drunk someone must be after drinking all afternoon, what a couple can't think of a film if they leave early, and how rich a couple

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Modals of Deduction Worksheet.

For each sentence, choose between can't, might or must to fill each space.

1. Your mother __________ be a great cook. You are always so keen to get
back home to eat!

2. I don't know why I am so tired these days. I __________ be working too


hard. Or maybe I am not sleeping too well.

3. Do you know where Carl is? He __________ be out - his car keys are on
the table.

4. You seem to know everything about the theatre. You __________ go


every week.

5. To give the promotion to Harold was silly. He __________ know much


about this company after only a year working here.

6. Go and look in the kitchen for your gloves. They __________ be in there.

7. Oh, the phone is ringing. Answer it. It __________ be Kate. She always
rings at this time.

8. Dan has been drinking that whiskey since early this afternoon. He
__________ be totally drunk by now.

9. That couple __________ think much of this film. They're leaving already -
after only 20 minutes!

10. That's the second new car they have bought this year. They __________
be very rich!

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