Modal verbs for deduction

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at

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these examples and see if you can tell

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how they're getting more advanced. B1,

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I haven't seen Lucy for weeks. She must

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be ill.

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B2,

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Actually, I think she might have gone

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away for the winter.

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And C1, the odds are she's high-tailed

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it to Spain for a few months. She's

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always banging on about doing that. It's

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true, I am. It's my dream to be in

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Spain. In the B1 example, you saw a

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present modal of deduction, must be.

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In the B2 sentence, you saw a past modal

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of deduction, might have gone.

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And at C1, you didn't see a modal verb

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at all. I used the structure the odds

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are to say that something is very likely

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to be true. You can also see the

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vocabulary getting much more advanced at

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C1 as well. Okay, there's lots more to

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learn about that, but I think that's a

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good start. Next, I want to talk about

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conditional sentences. Let's go through

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those levels again and see how using

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conditionals changes from B1 to B2 to

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C1. These sentences are all about

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fitness. B1, if I were you, I'd work on

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building muscle.