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the game.

will for prediction;

Degrees of certainty

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Complete the
statements

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will for prediction; Degrees of certainty

Our team will definitely

Who’ll win the
win. We’re really good!
game tomorrow?
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will for prediction; Degrees of certainty part one

● We often use will to make predictions or guesses about the future.

You can use the adverbs definitely, probably, and maybe to express different
degrees of certainty.
Our team will definitely win the 100% definitely
game. (absolutely certain)
Their team definitely
My brother won’t
will probably bescore.
on the team this year. probably
My sister probably won’t play volleyball this year. (pretty certain)
Maybe she’ll pass the ball to her teammate. maybe
Maybe she won’t catch the ball. 0% (not very certain)

Listen to the grammar examples. Repeat.

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will for prediction; Degrees of certainty part two

Placement
In affirmative statements, place the adverbs definitely and probably between
will and the main verb.
They’ll definitely win. NOT Definitely they’ll win.
They’ll probably score. NOT Probably they’ll score.
Place the adverb maybe before the subject.
Maybe they’ll win. NOT They’ll maybe win.
In negative statements, place the adverbs definitely and probably before won’t.
Place maybe at the beginning of the statement.
They definitely won’t win. NOT They won’t definitely win.
They probably won’t score. NOT They won’t probably score.
Maybe they won’t score. NOT They maybe won’t score.
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prediction; Degrees of certainty

Complete the statements with the words below.

definitely definitely maybe maybe probably will will won’t

1. Your team __________

will definitely lose.
Maybe
2. __________ they’ll win the game!
definitely enjoy this. I know it!
3. You’ll __________
probably won’t come tomorrow.
4. I’m not sure, but I __________
won’t
5. The students __________ like the movie. It’s awful!
Maybe
6. __________ you’ll score this weekend.
7. I think they __________
will win the competition.
8. We __________
definitely won’t go to school tomorrow. It’s Sunday!
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Look at the cues. Make statements with adverbs

and will or won’t.

definitely probably maybe

He will definitely call

1. He call his mom
his mom.

play on the school team I probably won’t play on

2. I
the school team.

Maybe she will go to the

3. she go to the mall this evening
mall this evening.

4. They win the game They definitely won’t win

the game.
We will probably go to the
5. We go to the beach this weekend
beach this weekend.