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    Learn English > English lessons and exercises > English test #48099: Modal: may/might
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    Modal: may/might


    'May' is a modal auxiliary.

    - It does not take an  's' in the present tense.

    The past tense or conditional is 'might'.

    You use it like an auxiliary in the interrogative and negative forms:

     May I go out?  No, you may not.


    -
     It has no infinitive form.

    - It has no participle.

    - If you want to use it in a tense which is not present or past you have to use 'to be allowed to'.

     

    'May' is used to express :

    Permission:

    May I go out Mum?

    You may eat some cake Jim.


    Probability:

    He may come late.

    He may be on holidays.


    Suggestion or reproach
    with 'might':

    He doesn't know what to do; he might ask Wendy.

    You might have done the washing-up!


    Wish:

    May this year bring you happiness and health!


    May/ might are sometimes used with a past participle :

    He might have been killed!

    He may have phoned while I was having a shower.



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