Modals of Obligation — The Price of a Roof in Ireland
Grammar: Modals of Obligation
Free ESL grammar exercise on modals of obligation themed around the price of a roof in ireland. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 6 (proficiency) ESL grammar exercise on society, practising modals of obligation. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
The lesson Ireland is learning, painfully, is that prolonged policy failure does not stay contained within the policy domain. Policymakers should have intervened far sooner — rents rose 90 per cent in a decade.
Grammar
- Must — strong
- Use must for strong personal or moral obligation. The government must build more social housing. Never add to after must.
- Should / Ought to
- Use should or ought to for moral expectation or advice. Landlords ought to provide stable tenancies.
Sample items
- The government ______ build at least 50,000 social homes per year to meet current demand.
- Ministers ______ introduced rent controls years before the crisis reached its current scale.
- Tenants who have paid rent consistently ______ accept a no-fault eviction without legal advice.
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