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MSoni Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

modal

difference?

1.you could be right.
2.you may be right.


Thanks in advance
  

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They're not different. Could and may are used to show how possible or probable the speaker thinks a present situation is.

— Miranda Tik

  • They're not different.
  • Could and may are used to show how possible or probable the speaker thinks a present situation is.
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They're not different.
 Could and may are used to show how possible or probable the speaker thinks a present situation is.
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Thanks.
To me sentence 1 sounds: you could be right, but I do not think so.
sentence 2 sounds: you may be right ,you may or be right.As I think.

Am I right Miranda?
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Could and may show that a speaker is 50% or less certain about a present situation.
So, both sentence, a speaker don't think as the other one think. It's 50% shared.
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I agree with MSoni, but a bit different.
Could is used to show the possibility(no opinion from the speaker)
May is used to suggest something that is possible (in the speaker's opinion)
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Yes, meaning is very much the same .
A little difference ,as I feel, may be:
Could= just possible(speaker is not talking about chances of happening)
May =likely to happen
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May = likely to happen (speaker's opinion)
do you think so?
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In certain contexts there could be a difference. My personal feeling is that in that sentence 'may' could (!) express a greater likelihood of there being a difference.

However, it is not possible to state categorically that there is a difference or, if there is a difference, how great that difference is. We certainly cannot say for certain whether the speaker intends, or the person
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