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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
About might
I have a question about might.
On my way out I might stop by the terraria to look at some shiny frogs glazed bright.
This sentence is from the book "life of pi"
This scene is about remembering the past experience in a zoo.
He lived there. And it is when he was going through the zoo to go to school.
My question is the usage of might.
As I know, might is used to guess about the present or future.
And 'might have' is used to guess about the past.
The sentence is about the past but it uses might.
So it doesn't make sense to me.
Can you explain this please?
On my way out I might stop by the terraria to look at some shiny frogs glazed bright.
This sentence is from the book "life of pi"
This scene is about remembering the past experience in a zoo.
He lived there. And it is when he was going through the zoo to go to school.
My question is the usage of might.
As I know, might is used to guess about the present or future.
And 'might have' is used to guess about the past.
The sentence is about the past but it uses might.
So it doesn't make sense to me.
Can you explain this please?
Top answer
For writers the past tense is death, so they phrase recollections as though you are living them in the present. "
- For writers the past tense is death, so they phrase recollections as though you are living them in the present.
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For writers the past tense is death, so they phrase recollections as though you are living them in the present. So you might tell a friend about your time at the university, as though you're talking about the present for its immediate imagery, 'One day I might stop for coffee, another day, I might stay home and read..." Otherwise it sounds like grampa back in the day, 'Why when I was your age, we
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