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by morpheus_2007 » Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:15 am
www.askoxford.com/betterwriting/classic ... mightormay
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by lunarpower » Thu Apr 17, 2008 12:12 am
this is a nice, concise summary. let me add the following justification:
might, semantically, is actually the past tense of may. therefore:
may means what you think it does: it suggests a (current) less-than-certain probability that something is true.
might, a past tense form, suggests that such a probability existed in the past, but doesn't anymore - giving rise to the usage described in the page cited.

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by arora007 » Fri Jan 21, 2011 1:11 pm
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