That night, her professor, Dr. Alvaro, kept her after class. He held up her homework. The answers were all correct. Perfect, in fact.
She copied the answer. Then sentence five: could have taken the bus . Copied. Sentence six: might have been delayed . Copied. A hollow feeling settled in her stomach. She wasn't learning. She was transcribing. Grammar And Beyond Essentials Level 3 Answer Key
She’d read the examples three times. “She must have forgotten the meeting.” “He can’ have left already.” But when she looked at sentence four—”The ground is wet; it ____ (rain) last night”—her mind went blank as fresh snow. That night, her professor, Dr
Maya stared at the crisp, white pages of her Grammar And Beyond Essentials Level 3 textbook. Exercise 2.2 on modal verbs of past probability ( must have, might have, could have, can’t have ) stared back, blank and unforgiving. The answers were all correct
Dr. Alvaro didn’t look angry. He looked disappointed. “The answer key is a map,” he said softly. “But you have to walk the road yourself. Go home. Don’t look at the key. Make ten wrong guesses. Then come see me.”