Yesterday in my morning class we studied maybe (the adverb) versus may/might be (the modal followed by main verb).
Is it going to rain Friday? Maybe. I don’t know. Maybe it will, and maybe it won’t. Adverb.
It may rain tomorrow. It might rain tomorrow. We might go on the field trip, but if it rains, we might cancel. (Modal plus main verb.)
Today the whole school went on a field trip to a small zoo out in the rural part of the county. We saw a lot of animals whose names we’d been learning in the days leading up to the field trip: lemur, bear, monkey, camel, dromedary, goat, tiger, lion, buffalo, llama.
Here and there we saw important looking signs posted on the outsides of certain animals’ enclosures: WE MIGHT BITE.
I may have to start a new blog category: English lesson synchronicity!
