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📌 Modals
Permission, Prohibition, Obligation, No obligation

To express permission, prohibition, obligation and no obligation we usually use modal verbs.

📌 Permission
Can is often used to ask for and give permission.
Can I sit here?
You can use my car if you like.
Can I make a suggestion?
We can also use may and could to ask for and give permission but can is used more
often.

📌 Prohibition
Both can’t and mustn’t are used to show that something is prohibited – it is not allowed.
You can’t park here, sir.
You can wear jeans but you can’t wear trainers in that bar.
You mustn’t speak when the teacher is speaking.

Can’t tells us that something is against the rules. Mustn’t is usually used when the obligation comes from the person who is speaking.

📌 Obligation
Have to and must are both used to express obligation. There is a slight difference between the way they are used.

Have to shows us that the obligation comes from somebody else. It’s a law or a rule and the speaker can’t change it.
Do you have to wear a uniform at your school?
John can’t come because he has to work tomorrow.
In Britain you have to buy a TV licence every year.

Must shows us that the obligation comes from the speaker. It isn’t a law or a rule.

I must call my dad tonight.
You must hand in your homework on Tuesday or your mark will be zero.
You must come and visit us the next time you come to London.

📌 No obligation
We use don’t have to to show that there is no obligation. You can do something if you want to but it’s not compulsory.
You don’t have to wear a tie in our office. You can wear a tie if you want to but it’s OK if you don’t.
It’ll be nice if you do but you don’t have to come with me if you don’t want to.
You don’t have to dress up for the party. Wear whatever you feel comfortable in.

Useful expressions for Writing Task 1 (General IELTS Exam)

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📌How to Do Summary Completion Type of Questions in IELTS Reading?
Summary completion question in IELTS reading is one of the difficult questions. Usually, you find this type of question in Section 3 but it may appear in Section 2 also. This question is in the form of a paragraph which is either the summary of whole passage or the summary of part of the passage. It is written in paraphrased form with usage of synonyms. So, it takes time for you to understand the question properly.
1️⃣ Understand Question Well to Relate with Passage
2️⃣ Underline Main Keywords
3️⃣ Choose Answer from Options Grammatically
4️⃣ Shortlist Options and Choose Closest Option
5️⃣ Answer Follows Order

📌 Very capable – accomplished
📌 Very clean – spotless
📌 Very clever – brilliant
📌 Very cold – freezing
📌 Very dirty – squalid
📌 Very dry – parched
📌 Very fast – swift
📌 Very good – superb
📌 Very happy – jubilant
📌 Very hot – scalding
📌 Very hungry – ravenous
📌 Very large – colossal
📌 Very light – imponderable
📌 Very high – sky-high
📌 Very neat – immaculate
📌 Very old – ancient
📌 Very poor – destitute
📌 Very quiet – silent
📌 Very rude – vulgar
📌 Very serious – solemn
📌 Very small – tiny
📌 Very strong – unyielding
📌 Very tasty – delicious
📌 Very tired – exhausted
📌 Very valuable – precious
📌 Very weak – feeble
📌 Very wet – soaked
📌 Very wicked – villainous
📌 Very wise – sagacious
📌 Very worried – anxious
📌 Very dangerous – malignant
📌 Very complex – overspecified
📌 Very frequent – continual