<meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 15"> | <html><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 19.2pt; vertical-align: middle; tab-stops: 3.0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>affirmative:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>subject + 'may/might' + <span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">bare infinitive </span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">might</span>/<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">may</span> attend.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 19.2pt; vertical-align: middle; tab-stops: 3.0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><br></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 19.2pt; vertical-align: middle; tab-stops: 3.0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>negative:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>subject + 'may/might' + not + <span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">bare infinitive</span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">might</span>/<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">may</span> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">not </span>attend.</span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 19.2pt; vertical-align: middle; tab-stops: 3.0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><br></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 19.2pt; vertical-align: middle; tab-stops: 3.0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>i</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>nterrogative:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>'may/might'<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"> </span>+ subject + <span style="color: rgb(112, 48, 160);">bare infinitive</span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">Might </span>you attend? <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);">May</span> I help you? </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 19.2pt; vertical-align: middle; tab-stops: 3.0cm;"><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><strong> </strong><span style='font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; ;'><strong>['might' is very formal in questions and rarely used.]</strong></span></span></p> <p><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'><br></span></b></p><p><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>Note that </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'>like other modal auxiliaries, </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='color: rgb(0, 0, 204); font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>may </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";'>and<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 204);"> might </span>have</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;'> no infinitive and we use the same form with 'I', 'you', 'he', 'she', 'it', 'we' and 'they'. ' |