SUMMARY CHART OF MODALS AND SIMILAR EXPRESSIONS

AUXILIARY	USES	EXAMPLE
May	1. formal permission	1. the harvest may reach 450.000 tons in 2012 after 435.000 tons last year, he said.
	2.  less than 50% certainty	2. cocoa-bean production in Indonesia, the world’s third-largest grower, may plunge more than 11 percent in the next five years.
Might	1. less than 50% certainty	1. Specifically, the economy might record a 2.1% growth in the first quarter
	2. polite request (rare)	2
Should	1. advisability	1. demand for Philippine exports should be lackluster at best this quarter,” HSBC said.
	2. 90% certainty	2. he said he agreed with Yudhoyono that tax officers should operate within the law to ensure the public did not doubt the success of  bureaucratic reform at the tax office.
Ought to	1. advisability	1
	2. 90% certainty	2
Had better	1. advisability with threat of bad result	1. anyway that we had better say it is, a person from the moment of conception.
Be supposed	1. expectation	1. in what pregnancy could it be supposed to that the mother has given the unborn person such a right?
Be to	1. strong expectation	1
Must	1.  strong expectation	1.  there must be no illicit practices or corruption, he said
	2. 95% certainty	2. But this seems to me to be a mistake, and perhaps the simplest way to show this is to bring out that while we must certainly grant that innocent persons have a right to life
Have to	1. necessity	1. I am inclined to think also that we shall probably have to agree that the fetus has already become a human person
	2. lack of necessity (negative)	2. and why pay out more arguments than you have to ?
Have got to	1. necessity	1
will	1. 100% certainty	1. policy makers will look inwardly for sources of growth in 2012
	2. willingness	2. External demand, for its part, will remain weak given continuing troubles in advanced economies.
Be going to	1. 100% certainty	1
	2. definite plan	2
Can	1. possibillty	1. farmers turn to crops that can boost their earnings by 150 percent per hectare.
	2. informal permission	2. the more development and welfare we can provide, he side
Could	1. Less than 50% certainty	1. output of the chocolate ingredient could drop below 400.000 metric tons.
	2, suggestion	2. in what pregnancy could it be supposed to that the mother has given the unborn person such a right?
Be able to	1. ability	1.
Would	1. polite request	1. The election would do little to economic stability, Edi said
	2. preference	2. they hoped the election would not be marred by violence.
Used to	1. repeated action in the past	1. your kidneys can be used to extract poisons from his blood as well as your own so that
Shall	1. polite question to make a suggestion	1. I am inclined to think also that we shall probably have to agree that the fetus has already become a human person
	2. future with "I" or "we" as subject	2. But I shall not discuss any of this