RobertT
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- Sep 18, 2010
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- Indonesian
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- Indonesia
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- Australia
To express possibility:
1. There is a possibility that he is the culprit.
2. There is a possibility that he be the culprit.
Normally I would use modal verbs in this context but for the sake of learning English, I'd like to ask, are both sentences even correct grammatically?
Also, do modal auxiliaries have different forms for past, present and future subjunctives?
They sound weird to me especially sentence one because the phrase "he is the culprit" is indicative.
Thank you.
Robert
1. There is a possibility that he is the culprit.
2. There is a possibility that he be the culprit.
Normally I would use modal verbs in this context but for the sake of learning English, I'd like to ask, are both sentences even correct grammatically?
Also, do modal auxiliaries have different forms for past, present and future subjunctives?
They sound weird to me especially sentence one because the phrase "he is the culprit" is indicative.
Thank you.
Robert
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