Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Can
- permission
- ability
- general truths
- possibility
- request
Could
- permission (more formal and polite than can)
- past achievement
- possibility
- ability
- guessing and prediction
- criticism
May
- permission (formal)
- possibility
- accepting a different view/opinio
Might
- a weak possibility
- permission (very formal)
- suggestion
- criticism
perhaps
Must
- deductions and conclusions
- necessity and obligation
- rules and laws
- invitations and encouragement
- criticism
-certain
-i am sure
-it definitely
Will
- certainty in the future
- predictions
- conditional sentences
- intentions and decisions
- willingness and offer
- promises
Shall
- offers, suggestions and advice
Ought to
You ought to go now.
- sth that is desired