Where the objects of the society are charitable in the legal sense, which includes the relief of poverty, the advancement of education or religion, and other purposes beneficial to the community, formalities prescribed by older statutes have been abolished by the Charities Act 1960, which, however, provides for compulsory registration of all charities not especially exempted. But no liability for tort can be enforced against a Trade Union for acts done in contemplation or furtherance of a specific trade dispute (within strict limits), and possibly not against other unincorporated societies. The common property, if it is more than mere cash in hand or at the bank, will be vested in trustees who must deal with it in accordance with the rules or with any trust expressly declared, and it can be made liable for obligations incurred by, or on behalf of, the society. Such contract or contracts may be varied if, and only if, the rules so provide, by a majority of the members or by a specified majority. The law does not, however, regard such societies (unless formally incorporated) as having any corporate personality it sees only individuals, owning property, it may be, in common, with rights and duties towards each other flowing from the contract, or rather series of contracts, to be found in the society's rules for on every change in the membership a new contract must be implied. There are no prohibitions against the formation of associations or societies for any lawful object - religious, social, political, philanthropic, or the like. Identify the modal verbs in the following text. It is therefore important to teach/learn them from an early stage. 456) modal verbs account for 15% of verb use in academic texts.

According to Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad & Finegan (1999, p. Examples are ' can', ' may', might', ' must'.

They have grammatical functions, helping to form complex verbal groups. Its function is to modulate the meaning of the verb. You, we, they will be allowed to go.A modal verb is a type of auxiliary verb. May he come to your party? No, he must not. When you use other tenses you have to replace them. You can only use them with the present tense. Modal verbs don't have a past form (except can) and a past participle (3 rd form).

The most common modal verbs are can, may and must. We also use them to make requests and offers. Modal verbs are types of auxiliary verbs which express necessity, ability, permission or possibility.

Exercises modal verbs