Choose the sentences in which the modals are used correctly:
(A) Rohit’s bag is not on his desk. He must have gone home already.
(B) All library books should returned before the summer break.
(C) You could have asked me for a lift. I was driving past your school anyway.
(D) We should have came to the stadium earlier to get good seats.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (A) and (C) only
(A) Rohit’s bag is not on his desk. He must have gone home already. — Correct.
- “Must have gone” is must have + past participle (V3).
- It shows a confident guess about the past.
(B) All library books should returned before the summer break. — Incorrect.
- The given sentence says “should returned”.
- The books do not return themselves. Someone returns them, so the sentence needs the passive.
- A modal in the passive takes be + V3.
- Correct form: All library books should be returned before the summer break.
(C) You could have asked me for a lift. I was driving past your school anyway. — Correct.
- “Could have asked” is could have + V3.
- It shows a chance in the past that was not used.
(D) We should have came to the stadium earlier to get good seats. — Incorrect.
- The given sentence says “should have came”.
- After “should have”, the verb must be in V3.
- “Came” is the simple past. The V3 of “come” is “come”.
- Correct form: We should have come to the stadium earlier to get good seats.