must
Must
There are various different types of use of the word ‘must’ can you identify them?
1. [Multiple choice]
Do excuse me. I must get back home.
Answers for Quiz [1].
- 1. This lets someone know how certain or definite you think or feel something is, that it is sure to be true.
- 2. This gives an order, instruction or advice to someone else, or to yourself. (correct)
- 3. This is an expression of how you think things should be but are not.
- 4. This indicates someone is imagining what a past event or situation was like.
- 5. This says something is forbidden.
- 6. This challenges some irritating habit or behaviour.
2. [Multiple choice]
Must you make such a thing of never eating meat?
(To make a thing of something – to emphasise the importance of something to an excessive extent. Similar to the idiom ‘to make a song and dance about sth’.
She makes such a (big) thing about not having a TV in the house……
He makes such a song and dance about his clothes.
)
Answers for Quiz [2].
- 1. This says something is forbidden.
- 2. This gives an order, instruction or advice to someone else, or to yourself.
- 3. This lets someone know how certain or definite you think or feel something is, that it is sure to be true.
- 4. This is an expression of how you think things should be but are not.
- 5. This indicates someone is imagining what a past event or situation was like.
- 6. This challenges some irritating habit or behaviour. (correct)
3. [Multiple choice]
A picnic in the park? That must have been nice.
Answers for Quiz [3].
- 1. This challenges some irritating habit or behaviour.
- 2. This gives an order, instruction or advice to someone else, or to yourself.
- 3. This says something is forbidden.
- 4. This indicates someone is imagining what a past event or situation was like. (correct)
- 5. This lets someone know how certain or definite you think or feel something is, that it is sure to be true.
- 6. This is an expression of how you think things should be but are not.
4. [Multiple choice]
Passengers must not lean out of the window.
Answers for Quiz [4].
- 1. This is an expression of how you think things should be but are not.
- 2. This says something is forbidden. (correct)
- 3. This gives an order, instruction or advice to someone else, or to yourself.
- 4. This challenges something which irritating in some way.
- 5. This lets someone know how certain or definite you think or feel something is, that it is sure to be true.
- 6. This indicates someone is imagining what a past event or situation was like.
5. [Multiple choice]
What’s going to happen to all her money? She must be worth a few million.
Answers for Quiz [5].
- 1. This indicates someone is imagining what a past event or situation was like.
- 2. This lets someone know how certain or definite you think or feel something is, that it is sure to be true. (correct)
- 3. This gives an order, instruction or advice to someone else, or to yourself.
- 4. This challenges some irritating habit or behaviour.
- 5. This says something is forbidden.
- 6. This is an expression of how you think things should be but are not.
6. [Multiple choice]
Everyone must feel free to walk on the streets at night without feeling uneasy.
Answers for Quiz [6].
- 1. This is an expression of how you think things should be but are not. (correct)
- 2. This indicates someone is imagining what a past event or situation was like.
- 3. This challenges some irritating habit or behaviour.
- 4. This gives an order, instruction or advice to someone else, or to yourself.
- 5. This lets someone know how certain or definite you think or feel something is, that it is sure to be true.
- 6. This says something is forbidden.
7. [Multiple choice]
You mustn’t take that attitude. He’s just a silly old man.
Answers for Quiz [7].
- 1. This lets someone know how certain or definite you think or feel something is, that it is sure to be true.
- 2. This gives an order, instruction or advice to someone else, or to yourself. (correct)
- 3. This challenges some irritating habit or behaviour.
- 4. This indicates someone is imagining what a past event or situation was like.
- 5. This is an expression of how you think things should be but are not.
- 6. This informs you that something is forbidden.
8. [Multiple choice]
And by the way, you must see the Angel of the North, it’s a really famous landmark.
Answers for Quiz [8].
- 1. This is an expression of how you think things should be but are not.
- 2. This warns you something is forbidden.
- 3. This indicates someone is imagining what a past event or situation was like.
- 4. This challenges some irritating or annoying behaviour or a habit which is annoying or irritating you.
- 5. This gives an order, instruction or advice to someone else, or to yourself. (correct)
- 6. This lets someone know how certain or definite you think or feel something is, that it is sure to be true.
9. [Multiple choice]
Being spoken to like that must have been upsetting.
Answers for Quiz [9].
- 1. This says something is forbidden.
- 2. This is an expression of how you think things should be but are not.
- 3. This challenges some irritating habit or behaviour.
- 4. This lets someone know how certain or definite you think or feel something is, that it is sure to be true.
- 5. This indicates someone is imagining what a past event or situation was like. (correct)
- 6. This gives an order, instruction or advice to someone else, or to yourself.
10. [Multiple choice]
You must not use quotations from books in your essays unless you attribute them in the bibliography.
Answers for Quiz [10].
- 1. This gives an order, instruction or advice to someone else, or to yourself.
- 2. This says something is forbidden. (correct)
- 3. This indicates someone is imagining what a past event or situation was like.
- 4. This lets someone know how certain or definite you think or feel something is, that it is sure to be true.
- 5. This challenges some irritating habit or behaviour.
- 6. This is an expression of how you think things should be but are not.