Checking Your Understanding Identify the modals in the following sentences, then determine whether the mood is expressing prohibition, permission or obligation.
Modals_____ Mood_______
____________._________1. Students need to be diligent in studying and participating in class.
___________.__________2. Parents must listen not only to what the children are saying but also to what they are not saying.
___________.___________3. Children may join activities outside the school premises. provided their parents know about it.
___________.___________4. Students cannot choose which rules to obey.
___________.___________5. People must be mindful of their words and actions. It affects others on many levels.
___________.__________6. Some may express their own opinions but they have to be tactful about it.
___________.__________7. Words can hurt or they can be encouraging.
___________.__________8. Anybody could take the entrance test in the vocational school.
___________.__________9. You can't graduate if you fail one course.
___________.__________10. You mustn't waste your life in something to temporary or trivial.