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✅ May ; might and the difference..
📘In popular usage and speech, may and might are used interchangeably when referring to possibility and probability,
📕but there is a slight difference between the two.
✅ May is used to express what is possible, factual, or could be factual.
📘 For example, He may lose his job.
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✅ Use “May” When The Event Is Slightly More Likely To Happen“
📕What are you doing this weekend?”
✅“Shopping! I’m going to buy some new clothes, and I may get a new hat as well.”
👉 (it’s slightly more probable that I will buy the hat)
✅ What are you doing this weekend?
📕I might go to the movies. I’m not sure.”
📘(it’s slightly less probable that I will go to the movies)
In The Past, Always Use “Might”
📕(In The Structure Might + Have + Past Participle)
✅Why is Sara so happy today?
📘I don’t know. She might have gotten a promotion – I’d heard a rumor that the boss was thinking of making her manager.”
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📕Always Use “May” When Asking For Permission“May I open the window?
📘This question is correct, but it sounds rather formal.
Most English speakers would probably say “Can I open the window?
📕in everyday life.Always Use “Might” With “Not
📘I may not go to the wedding.
In this case, may not sounds like I don’t have permission to go.I might not go to the wedding.
In this case, might not means maybe I will go, maybe I won’t go.
📘Many native English speakers do not make a major distinction between may and might, and the two words are often used interchangeably – so don’t worry too much about it!
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