Auxiliary

Auxiliary	Uses		Present/future	Past
May	1.polite request		And it may be too late; many in the center have become enamored of Mr. Ryan, who also appeals to the Republican base and may even become Mitt Romney’s vice-presidential running mate
	2.formal permission		But he may be the only one with the financial fate of his nation potentially hanging in the balance.
Might	1.less than 50% certainty		In return, the Union might demand that Cyprus raise its 10 percent tax on corporate profits, a crucial selling point and key to an economy based on financial and business services like accounting.
	2.polite request(rare)
Should	1.advisability		In your book, you argue that China should liberalize interest rates and adopt a more market-oriented exchange-rate policy, suggesting that these would be the most effective policy tools to rebalancing the nation’s economy
	2.90% certainty		Within a year or so we should expect to see that private consumption expenditure would pick up relative to the overall growth of the economy and that investment outlays would moderate
Ought to	1.advisability
	2.90% certainty
Had better	1.advisability with threat of bad result
Be supposed to	1.expectation
Be to	1.strong expectation
Must	1.strong neccesity		And there is not much time left: Banks in Europe must demonstrate to the European Banking Authority by the end of June that they have enough capital to be viable.
	2.prohibition(negative)
Have to	1.necessity		But the necessary reforms have to blocked by vested interests, so a pessimist would say reform now is unlikely
	2.lack of necessity		Cypriot business people dread the prospect of having to ask the European Union for a bailout
Have got to	1.necessity
Will	1.100% certainty		Some of this has been for infrastructure, which will support long-term economic growth.
	2.polite request		The property boom is based on the widespread assumption that property prices will continue to move upward with only brief and shallow price corrections
Be going to	1.100% certainty
	2.definite plan
Can	1.ability/possibility		Tourists in Nicosia’s old town can eat at the Berlin Wall Kebab Shop, abutting a crumbling stone section of the dividing line.
	2.informal permission
Could	1.past ability		And that, he says, could set the stage for a lengthy period of sluggish growth.
	2.polite request		In an exchange by phone and e-mail, I asked Mr. Lardy about the roots of the imbalances, and whether China’s long-running economic boom could be coming to an end.
Be able to	1.ability		But since 2009, when Cypriot banks became the pathway for the Greek crisis to infect the local economy, its deficit has risen to equal an estimated 7 percent of G.D.P. in 2011, and the country is no longer able to sell bonds on the open market after a series of downgrades by ratings agencies.
Would	1.polite request		Deposit rates were held down so that the after-inflation return on bank deposits for savers turned negative. That reduced household income below the path it otherwise would have achieved, leading to a slowdown in the rate of growth of household consumption expenditure
	2.preference		The central bank had to pay interest on these bills and reserves, and the low-interest-rate policy made the cost of these operations less than it would have been had interest rates been market determined.
Used to	1.repeated action in the past
Shall	1.polite request to make a sugesstion
		2.future with “I” or “we”as subject