Rule reminder
Final mastery exercise: modal clauses in authentic B2-level literary Italian. Skills tested: (1) identifying all modal clause types in a passage; (2) transforming between equivalent modal expressions; (3) interpreting the stylistic/semantic effect of the author's choice; (4) correcting errors in student rewrites of literary passages.
Passage: «Si mosse verso la finestra lentamente, come se ogni passo costasse un'enorme fatica, tenendo le braccia lungo i fianchi e guardando dritto davanti a sé.» How many modal elements can be identified?