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    This document discusses ways to express certainty and uncertainty in predictions using modal verbs and the future tense. Certainty is expressed using "will" plus the continuous, perfect, or perfect continuous tenses. Examples are given like "By 2000, mosquitoes, houseflies and cockroaches will have been exterminated." Uncertainty is expressed using modal verbs like "may", "might", or "should". Examples given are "By the year 2050, we may be able to take a holiday on the moon" and "In the future, doctors should have found a cure for most illnesses."

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    This document discusses ways to express certainty and uncertainty in predictions using modal verbs and the future tense. Certainty is expressed using "will" plus the continuous, perfect, or perfect continuous tenses. Examples are given like "By 2000, mosquitoes, houseflies and cockroaches will have been exterminated." Uncertainty is expressed using modal verbs like "may", "might", or "should". Examples given are "By the year 2050, we may be able to take a holiday on the moon" and "In the future, doctors should have found a cure for most illnesses."

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    English Presentation Predictions

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    brayan nicolas jimenez sanabria
    This document discusses ways to express certainty and uncertainty in predictions using modal verbs and the future tense. Certainty is expressed using "will" plus the continuous, perfect, or perfect continuous tenses. Examples are given like "By 2000, mosquitoes, houseflies and cockroaches will have been exterminated." Uncertainty is expressed using modal verbs like "may", "might", or "should". Examples given are "By the year 2050, we may be able to take a holiday on the moon" and "In the future, doctors should have found a cure for most illnesses."

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    PREDICTIONS

    EXPRESSING CERTAINTY AND


    UNCERTAINTY
    WILL = CERTAIN
    PREDICTIONS
    EXAMPLES
     By 2000, mosquitoes, houseflies
    WILL
    and cockroaches will have been
    exterminated. Will + continuous
     In a week’s time, we’ll be Will + perfect
    travelling to the United States.
    Will + perfect continuous
     By 2020, I will have been
    living here for more than half of
    my life.
    MODAL VERBS =
    UNCERTAIN PREDICTIONS
    EXAMPLES

     By the year 2050, we may be able


    MODAL
    to take a holiday on the moon. VERBS
     This time nest year, we might be
    living in a different city. May

     In the future, doctors should Might


    have found a cure for most illnesses. Should
     When I’m older, I’ll probably / Probably / Hopefully
    hopefully be living in a different city.
    Brayan Nicolas Jimenez Sanabria

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    Oscar Blanquicet Gamarra

    2019

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