Modals of Deduction
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You enter your tenant's room as she has not paid rent for two days and you have not seen her. Upon investigating, you find no clues as to her whereabouts but learn more about her personal life. From the state of her room, you deduce that she is likely on holiday, may be a smoker, and could have fallen in love with someone which caused her absence. However, you eliminate that she is dead or disappeared.
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Modals of Deduction
- 1. What’s happened to the tenant? Speaking (Expressing deduction)
- 2. Situation You are landlord and landladies and one of your tenants has not paid her rent this week. You have not heard her in her room for two days and you are rather worried as she did not tell you she was going to be away. You decide to go into her room to see if you can get any clues to her whereabouts. Being a rather nosy person, you also take the opportunity to find out a bit more about your tenant!
- 4. Extremely Certain (positive) Extremely Certain (negative) Making deductions (certainty and uncertainty) She must be on holidays. (PRESENT) Someone must have called her. (PAST) She might/may be a smoker. (PRESENT) She might/may have fallen in love with that boy. (PAST) She can’t be dead . (PRESENT) She can’t have disappeared . (PAST)