Skip to Content

Content tagged with "BE BOUND TO"

1 item(s) found.

Modals expressing present and future certainty / uncertainty

Here we discuss structureThe way in which the parts of a sentence, clause or expression are arranged. E.g.: make somebody + infinitive in "The teacher made me rewrite the composition."s that show how certain the speaker is whether something happens or will happen. Between the two extremes (the first and the last sentence below) the order of the structures (might, may, could etc.) expresses a growing amount of certainty.

Syndicate content