Modals

Subject + modal + Verb~1\\
Subjet + modal + not + Verb~1\\
Modal + not + subject + Verb~1

Can-Can’t

Yapabiliyorum, edebiliyorum… (Ability)

• I can play tennis.
• I can’t speak Spanish

Olabilme olasılığı (Possibility)

• It can get hold here in the noon

İzin almak için kullanılır (Permission)

• Can I ask you a question

Teklif (Offer)

• Can I help you.

Olumsuz hali bitişik yazılır cannot / can’t

Be able to

• Is she able to play tennis?
• I am able to speak Turkish.
• He was able to make in on time.

Could

Ability in the past. Can in geçmiş hali gibi

• I could ride a bike when I was 14.
• She could read when she was five.

Polite Permission or request.

• Could I help you

Suggestion

• He could try and fix it himself.

Impossible things

• That couldn’t be my cat meowing.

May

Permission

• May I use your laptop.
• Yo may go now.

Possibility

• She may still be angry at you.

Wishes

• may the force be with you.

Might

Possibility

• It might rain tomorrow, so take an umbrella.

Past form of “may”

• She said he might be hungry.

might/may as well

• There is nothing good on TV, I might as well go to sleep.