What does the modal verb 'could' indicate in the sentence: ...

[ Modal Verbs ]

What does the modal verb ‘could’ indicate in the sentence: I could have gone to the party.

A. Permission in the present

B. Possibility or ability in the past

C. Certainty in the past

D. Possibility in the future

Select your answer:
A B C D E

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Sound symbolism means that we often _____ the meaning of a word from its sound.

A. guess

B. judge

C. imagine

D. expect

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Identify the tense of the underlined verb phrase in the sentence.

All of us have studied hard for the physics exam.

A. past perfect

B. present perfect

C. past progressive

D. present progressive

E. future perfect

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Find the predicate. The assistant principal was busy.

A. the assistant principal

B. was busy

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Stephen Crane’s schooling was not continuous; —- he read all of the 19th-century English writers and the Greek and Latin classics.

A. Although
B. Nonetheless
C. Because of
D. Therefor