No probs for the Brit council with will in:

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metal56
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No probs for the Brit council with will in:

Post by metal56 » Tue Apr 06, 2004 11:52 pm

All of these modal verbs can also be used to talk about degrees of certainty in the past. Once more, will or won't expresses the most certainty, and might/could or mightn't the least certainty.

That will have been Ted you saw - he's seven feet tall.
It won't have been Sue you saw - she's blonde and is five feet tall.

http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/grammar/ ... rbs01.html[/b][/quote]

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Post by Stephen Jones » Wed Apr 07, 2004 10:01 pm

Is there anybody on this forum who has ever denied it?

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