English Modal Auxiliary Verbs: May, Might, Can, Could, Will, Would

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English Modal Auxiliary Verbs
May, Might, Can, Could, Will, Would, Shall, Should, Must, Need
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English Modal auxiliary VErbs
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MoDal auxiliary Verb - May anD Might
May And Might Implies Possibility
Used To Ask For Permission
Used To Give Permission
Note - Might is the past equivalent of ‘may’ in indirect
speech.
But it is used in the same way as ‘may’ to talk about the
present or future.
Difference between May and Might
May denotes more probability/more possibility
Might denotes less probability/less possibility
It may rain tomorrow (Perhaps a 75% chance)
More possible
It might rain tomorrow (Perhaps a 50% chance)
Less possible
Might also denotes ‘would perhaps’
You might attract President’s attention later. (= Perhaps
you would attract.)
He might have to go (Perhaps he had to go
Might is used in ‘conditional sentences’
Might has limitations while ‘asking permission’
Might is very polite and formal; It is not common. It is mostly
used in indirect questions.
I wonder if I might work on your computer.
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English Modal auxiliary VErbs
use of MoDal auxiliary ‘May’ – 01
Possibility/Probability (In Present And Future)
PATTERN
(MAY + VERB Word)
You may index us for queries regarding donations.
Whosever may come and go, there is no difference.
He may install camera.
It may work this time.
His arrest may spell fresh trouble.
The long wait may end today.
City may not have the roads to drive sports car but it has
excellent infrastructure.
The tough times may continue in the coming months.
They may frame false charges against me.
Government may take more steps to curb gold.
That stage may come.
may take me to a somewhere.
It may rain day after tomorrow.
It may soon take just four months to recover.
One may go for matching the genetic horoscope.
We eat that we may live.
may go home.
State may buy electricity from central pool.
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(MAY + Auxiliary ‘Have’)
We may have a new world out there.
It may have at least one virtue.
You may
have some consolation.
You may soon have something to cheer about.
(MAY + Auxiliary ‘Be’)
May be he came to know something secret and was removed
from the post.
It may well be.
It may also be that ---It may well be a thing of past.
He may be brain behind discovery.
It may be my own opinion.
This may be it.
It may be that there is more than one charge.
Hidden camera may be subject to well laid out rules.
(May + Be + Ing Form of Verb)
[Continuous Form]
We received information that he may be coming to
Singapore to meet her.
He
a lost battle.
You may be making a mistake.
He may be weeping.
They may well be speaking the truth.
Canada may be celebrating better harvest in coming
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