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 MUST; BE TO; HAVE TO; HAVE GOT TO - English_for_Finance_and_Banking - Studbook

English_for_Finance_and_Banking

MUST; BE TO; HAVE TO; HAVE GOT TO

 

Uses

Present/Future

Past

1) duty; obligation; strong necessity

I must go to class today.

I have to go to class today.

I have got to go to class today.

I had to go to class yesterday.

2) lack of necessity (negative)

I don’t have to go to class today.

I didn’t have to go to class yesterday.

3) prohibition (negative)

You must not open that door.

 

4) 90% certainty

Mary isn’t in class. She must be sick. (present only)

You must have been sick yesterday.

5) plan; agreement

We are to meet at nine.

We were to meet at nine.

6) order instruction

You must go here at once.

You are to go there at once.

 

7) destiny (past only)

 

He was never o see his wife again.

 

 

 

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