Anyone could/might get...
1) Anyone could get a very nasty skin disease from bathing in dirty water.
2) Anyone might get a very nasty skin disease from bathing in dirty water.
Are they both general statements about possibility that do not refer to any particular time, ie, true for any and all time?
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Rizan Malik 1) Anyone could get a very nasty skin disease from bathing in dirty water. 2) Anyone might get a very nasty skin disease from bathing in dirty water. Are they both general statements about possibility that do not refer to any particular time, ie, true for any and all time?
- Rizan Malik 1) Anyone could get a very nasty skin disease from bathing in dirty water.
- 2) Anyone might get a very nasty skin disease from bathing in dirty water.
- Are they both general statements about possibility that do not refer to any particular time, ie, true for any and all time?
- They sound to me more like ways of excusing someone who bathed in dirty water and got a nasty skin disease from it.
- It is as if the speaker is saying, "Well, what happened to you could/might have happened to anybody, so don't feel like yours is an unusual case".
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Rizan Malik1) Anyone could get a very nasty skin disease from bathing in dirty water.
2) Anyone might get a very nasty skin disease from bathing in dirty water.
Are they both general statements about possibility that do not refer to any particular time, ie, true for any and all time?
They sound to me more like ways of excusi
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