2014年8月12日 · This may be the place means it's possible that this is the place. The other kind of modal meaning, called the Deontic sense, refers to obligation and permission, and is social, …

2019年2月27日 · May and might are both used to talk about the present and the future. They tell us about possible actions or happenings. I may/might go to Canada. (=Perhaps I will go to …

I may go to the cinema is very similar to I can go the cinema, but as a native speaker, you know the difference between can and may being that between ability and permission or possibility. …

2016年5月16日 · I know, for a specific date, it is used on: On 16 May 2016. I also know, when you refer to a month or year alone you use in: In June, In 2000 But I saw in internet some sources …

Can is about ability, skills, knowing how to do things, whereas the word may comes from Proto-Germanic root mag-, infinitive maganan, from Proto-Indo-European magh-to be able, have …

2015年3月25日 · "May" is typically used for requests, but I will definitely side with WindowsDude7 right above! "Could" is definitely your best shot if you want to express politeness :) "Could" is …

2017年1月18日 · May, like all modals, has a number of functions. One of these is its magical function, used for blessing, cursing, and wishing. Fillmore describes it about page 5 in his …

2020年10月9日 · The structure 'might had' is ungrammatical. If you are using a modal auxiliary verb (might, may, could, etc) to express something in the past, it has to be in the format have …

2012年7月27日 · Its use would be appropriate given that context. Using "with" gives "proceed" an additional connotation, that of beginning or resuming an action. (e.g. "Since you cleaned the …

2021年5月25日 · #2 and #3 are precisely equivalent, except that native speakers normally invert subject+verb in utterances that are essentially "questions", so #2 isn't very idiomatic compared …