Handbook: Writing Problems and How to Correct Them

EXERCISE 27.2, Choosing the Correct Modal

EXERCISE 27.2

Choosing the Correct Modal

For each sentence, type the correct modal from the list to complete the sentence.

can	may	should	would
could have	might	will	would have

1. Other people feel that they ______meet their potential mate in person.

2. Speed dating ______be another way to find romance.

3. In the past, few ______imagined such uses for technology.

4. Now people fear that technology ______soon make many human activities obsolete, including matchmaking.

5. Human matchmakers ______become obsolete if online dating remains popular.