Questão de Língua Inglesa

Read the excerpt below and analyze the modal verbs. Then, choose the alternative that correctly classifies the sequence of modal verbs according to their grammatical meaning. “The event on which this fiction is founded has been supposed, by Dr. Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of Germany, as not of impossible occurrence. I shall not be supposed as according the remotest degree of serious faith to such an imagination; yet, in assuming it as the basis of a work of fancy, I could not consider myself as merely weaving a series of supernatural terrors. The most humble novelist, who seeks to confer or receive amusement from his labours, may, without presumption, apply to prose fiction a similar rule.”