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There are various different types of use of the word ‘must’ can you identify them?

 

 

 

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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.