Modals Exercise With Answers (Modal Verb Exercises)

Choose the right modal verb

1. There are plenty of tomatoes in the fridge. You Select an option: mustn't needn't may not should not buy any.
2. This is a hospital. You Select an option: mustn't needn't may not don't have to smoke here.
3. He had been working for more than 11 hours. He Select an option: must need had better mustn't be tired after such hard work. He Select an option: may should mustn't can get some rest.
4. I Select an option: could might can must speak Arabic fluently when I was a child and we lived in Morocco. But after we moved back to Canada, I had very little exposure to the language and forgot almost everything I knew as a child. Now, I Select an option: may can must need say just a few things in Arabic.
5. The teacher said we Select an option: may needn't must should read this book for our own pleasure. But we Select an option: could need needn't mustn't read it as it is optional.
6. Select an option: May Need Must Can you stand on your head for more than a minute? No, I Select an option: may not needn't can't .
7. You Select an option: could need needn't must worry. We will help you become a fluent speaker but you have to work hard.
8. Take an umbrella. It Select an option: need should mustn't might rain later.
9. You Select an option: shouldn't need needn't may not leave small objects lying around. Such objects Select an option: must need may mustn't be swallowed by babies.
10. People Select an option: couldn't needn't mustn't may not walk on the grass.
11. Drivers Select an option: could must may stop when the traffic lights are red.
12. Select an option: May Must Should Will I ask a question? Yes, of course.
13. You Select an option: couldn't needn't mustn't may not take your umbrella. It is not raining.
14. Select an option: Can Need Should May you speak Italian? No, I Select an option: shouldn't mustn't may not can't .