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  • Prohibition: Smoking in restaurants
    You mustn't smoke in restaurants
  • Ability: Something you know how to do it
    Can / am able to
  • Responibility: Help your friend if they have a problem
    You have to help your friend if they have a problem
  • Obligation: COVID rules
    You must ...
  • Advice: To a classmate
    You should ...
  • Advice: To someone who doesn't watch anime
    You should
  • Ability in negative: Languages you don't speak
    can't / am not able to
  • Something you mustn't do now
    ...
  • Negative important for you: Go to bed at ...
    I don't need to go to bed at ...
  • Responsibility: Bring school material with you
    You have to bring your school material with you
  • Something you may do this week
    ...
  • Negative hypothetical possibility: Study a degree at uni
    I might not study ...
  • Prohibition: Make fire in a hospital
    You mustn't make a fire in a hospital
  • Important for you: You say this to a friend who is upset
    Need to
  • Something you want to do but you can't
    ....
  • Negative advice: To PS4 players
    You shouldn't ...
  • Something you may do this week
    ...
  • Something you must do as a human being
    ...
  • Ability: A gift that you have
    Can / am able to
  • Real possibility: A place to go
    may / can
  • Advice: To a friend
    should
  • Hypothetical possibility: Buy a Tesla
    I might buy a Tesla
  • Negative ability in the past: Speaking 30 languages
    I couldn't speak 30 languages
  • Something you want to learn but you're not able to do it
    ...
  • Negative possible possibility: A place to visit
    I may not go to
  • Something you could do but you can't do now
    ...
  • Negative advice: To a friend who has broken up with someone
    You shouldn't
  • Prohibition: A thing to a friend
    mustn't
  • Something important for you: End the last season of ...
    I need to end the last season of ...
  • Ability in negative: Records you don't beat
    Can't / am not able to
  • Something you couldn't do, but you can do now
    ...
  • Negative responsibility: Wear googles to go swimming
    You don't have to wear googles to go swimming
  • Something you might do this week
    ...
  • Obligation: Wear seatbelt
    You must wear your seatbelt
  • Ability in the past: Do parkour
    I could do parkour
  • Possible possibility: Visit someone
    may visit
  • Permission: You ask this to your family to go out with friends
    Can I hang out with my friends?
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