B2 · Upper-intermediate Modal verbs · Obligation

Modal verbs of obligation and permission

Estimated study time: about 47 minutes

Meaning and purpose

Range of obligation prohibition permission

Examples

Visitors are not allowed to smoke.

Correct versus incorrect

Correct

Visitors are not allowed to smoke.

Incorrect example

No paired incorrect sentence has been authored for this lesson yet.

Common misconception

let/make/allow patterns

Practice and review

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Answer all, then check

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