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English in 5 minutes! - Why are modal verbs useful for Business English? Find out! Book an Italki lesson with us: Rachel: https://teach.italki.com/teacher/1394345 Paul: https://www.italki.com/teacher/1657616 Modal verbs are words like can, could, should, may, might, and must have to. But describing what a modal verb is is actually quite a tricky thing. Modal verbs are words that we use to help us describe ability and probability. They don't actually mean anything. They just indicate to the listener whether something is likely to happen or not, whether there's an obligation. For example, if you say I must go to the meeting, I know it's important to you. If you say I have to go to the meeting, I know that somebody else has told you you've got to go. In business, usually, you're obliged to do something. So we can use these modal verbs to talk about being obliged to do something. I have to do something. I have to write this report. I must visit the customer next week. Those are obligations. But we also would use them to talk about the possibility of something happening, the probability of something happening, but also your ability to do something as well, which are all very relevant in business.
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Part 1 of 5. Inside a dusty workroom, an old craftsman held up a chess piece to the window. He rotated it in the sunlight and inspected its every detail. “Perfection,” said the craftsman. He added it to the set he had been building. Sixteen grey pieces sat on his worktable, all handmade and almost ready for sale. The craftsman felt very satisfied with his designs. He was ready for the final stage of the process. He picked up one of the pawn pieces and said, “What about you, my little friend? What colour would you like to be?” He reached for his paint brush, dunked it into glass of water and then into a container of paint. The grey pawn received a heavy coating of shiny white paint. Fast-forward several years into the future. After repeated use and abuse, that little pawn’s proud white colour had faded. Areas of his original grey were visible. Because of this, whenever players assembled their chess set, they left this little grey-white pawn to the side. “Uhm, is that yours or mine?” said the white player. “It doesn’t matter. Put it back in the box and choose from the others,” said the black player. This little plastic pawn’s name was Gary.
Gary the Chess Piece
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