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Re: may/might

Hi Newguest I have the following to share with you. may / might Similarly, we can use the modal auxiliaries may or might to say that there is a chance that something is true or may happen. May and might are used to talk about present or future events. They can normally be used...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Yoong Liat 286 days ago Auxiliaries, Modals, Expressions, Conditionals, Modal Auxiliaries
Re: did or was

Anonymous wrote: Hi, Sometimes I get confused which one to used in the situations like the one or ones below. Did he go to school on Sunday? Was he born in Japan? Why one takes a modal verb 'did', whereas the other one takes an auxiliary verb 'was'? How can I make correct choices?...

ESL Basic English Grammar Questions and Help by Philip 304 days ago Expressions, Verbs, Modals, Auxiliaries, Negatives, Modal Verbs
Re: might vs might have and Passive versions of both

Kilimanjaro wrote: Hello Cool Breeze, This sentence is taken from Michael SWAN's Practical English Usage. He says "might" can be used in such contexts Hi Kilimanjaro Yes, I know it's from that book. You mentioned it in a previous post. I didn't say it was right or wrong in my opinion. I...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by Cool Breeze 1 yr 124 days ago Grammar, Tenses, Clauses, Numbers, Auxiliaries, Modals, Expressions, Past Tenses, Modal Auxiliaries

< Milky wrote: I have agreed that certain BE speaking individuals do not follow the must subjective/ have to objective line and that their use may be either regional, idiolectic, or influenced by AE use. This is like saying "All swans are white,...

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milky 2 yr 56 days ago Auxiliaries, Modals, Expressions, British English, Images

Re: Modal verbs

Milky wrote: I have agreed that certain BE speaking individuals do not follow the must subjective/ have to objective line and that their use may be either regional, idiolectic, or influenced by AE use. This is like saying "All swans are white, except the ones that are black. Nonetheless,...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by MrPedantic 2 yr 56 days ago Auxiliaries, Modals, Negatives, Expressions, British English
Re: Modal verbs

<"Clearly, the speaker (in this case, the BBC journalist) did not oblige Annette Cowley to return to work."> You're stuck in a hole. Tell us something new. Again: Subjective modality = the speaker's subjective belief state or attitude towards the proposition. --------- Since...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by milky 2 yr 59 days ago Auxiliaries, Modals, Negatives, Expressions
What is the case, in general, in your variant of English?

I feel that the statement below covers general BE use of deontic modality. Some BE speakers may disagree with me. How about you? How is deontic modality used, in general, in your variant of English? "A general semantic characteristic of the deontic use of the central modals is that they...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by milky 2 yr 60 days ago Auxiliaries, Modals, Negatives, Expressions
Re: The Seven Deadly Sins of Grammar

Alienvoord, I appreciate you're constructive criticism. Allow me to rebute: 1) Comprehensible, yes. But many expressions are comprehensible even without being gramatically sound. The nuances I try to reveal in this post are to help you write better gramatically, not to sound or to write...

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by Drewauerbach 2 yr 120 days ago Constructions, Auxiliaries, Prepositions, Modals, Grammar, Articles, Numbers, Adverbs, Conversations, Expressions, Phonetics, English Grammar, Modal Verbs, Lexical Choices
Re: To do or not to do.

The auxiliary "do" is used in questions, negatives, emphatic expressions, and tags. You liked her. Did you like her? You didn't like her. Didn't you like her? You did like her. You liked her, didn't you? You did like her, didn't you? As for emphatics, they frequently occur in the...

ESL General English Grammar Questions by CalifJim 2 yr 317 days ago Verbs, Clauses, Negatives, Auxiliaries, Modals, Expressions, Modal Verbs
Re: may, might and could - what's the difference

Mary Ansell's on-line text, English Grammar: Explanations and Exercises , explains some of the differences among these auxiliaries: 3. Can and Could The modal auxiliary can is most often used in the Simple conjugation. The most important meaning of can and could is to be able to....

ESL Linguistics Discussion Forum by rvw 3 yr 55 days ago Auxiliaries, Modals, Grammar, Clauses, Expressions, Modal Auxiliaries, English Grammar

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