Dear colleagues and ESLP friends of mine,�

I �m planning a lesson about modals of certainty. Is that right if I say, the the modals MAY, MIGHT and COULD all express possibility/probability, with the information that MAY is supposed to express the strongest and COULD the weakest degree of certainty about the statement? I am aware of the fact that it can be just a formal principle but still, is that ok?

Thanks a lot, Mish

I usually use this forum to ask people who have more experience with the real use English (luckily native speakers but don�t stick to it) than me about things that I have learned somewhere else (usually in grammar guides or yet better at university which is a while ago) and simply want to make sure by reading their opinions because the grammar guides might sometimes be a little too much theoretical and the native users might be a valuable source of information to compare with what is written in them.

I always try to be polite and feel very grateful if someone really tries to give me an answer.

Greetings, Mish

�My dear Regina:-) Missing you and your lovely sense of humor.�

Thank you, Kodora, for the link. It proves the difference of the meaning of could but still doubtful about may and might� BTW the site seems to be pretty good. Thanks a lot.

Thank you, Bruce, so much and once again!!! Such an answer is what I was looking for.

To be honest I cannot tell you now where this information is from because at the moment I am browsing my older materials I took from different sources a year or so ago and printed them to take them home for the weekend not to have too much rest:-) �It must have occurred in some profound linguistic source:-) Sorry for that.