May and Might the modals for when we are not in control

4-FOURTH WEEK MAY or MIGHT HMS
Her majesty’s ship

H – have to-used for the law
M — must – used for strong advice
S — should – used for friendly advice

Have to - opposite of - mustn't 
Must - opposite of - don't have to

You have to wear protective clothing on the building site (you don't have a choice) ????????????‍♂️

you mustn't enter into this zone unless you have authorization (you don't have a choice)????????

You should go and visit your aunt (you do have a choice)???? ????????‍♀️

You don't have to take a bottle of wine if you go to a party (you do have a choice)????????


Friendly conversation using have to: you have to go and see this new movie ????


Friendly conversation using mustn't : you mustn't worry I'm sure everything is going to be all right ????????‍♀️


We use have to for deduction and we use have to for obligations.

Because have to is the highest modal used out of this list for obligation 
it is also the highest modal out of this list used for deduction: 

"you have to wear protective clothing" 
"Oh there was a knock at the door that has to be the postman.
When you go to Manchester you must take the M6. There was a knock at the door that must be John.

PART 2 CAN COULD MUST MAY MIGHT 
Deduction language is also broken down into the family of can and could and the family of must, may and might

Capacity is a word which begins with C 

Mystery is a word which begins with M
The words must followed by may followed by might all begin with M 
so here we can remember that they are mystery words, things we do not really control
For example:
"oh it must be ‪1 o'clock‬"
"That may be my taxi"
"It might be time to check if the chicken is ready"



Capacity is a word which begins with C

For example the postman never comes to the door before 9 o'clock so if there's a knock on the door at 8:30 
we say that can't be the postman because we can judge by the fact that the postman never comes so early to the door. 

When judging the climate in the country we could say it can be very warm in the summer in Spain this is because it is 
usual for this to happen we wouldn't say it may be very warm in Spain. 

We also say it could be possible for you to have a table at nine in the restaurant.


If you are a Technically trained sales assistant it we would be more likely to use can or could
I think I know what the problem is that could be the pump or maybe we can imagine it's the ventilator
however if you are less qualified we are not so sure about something so we do not use can or could

May or might would be better for less certainty
For example
That might be the pump it might be the ventilator there again it may be some other thing which is not operating correctly. Now a lesson about looming and lurking I would like to remind you that looming is about something on the horizon
it might be a good thing or a bad thing so if you have a photocopier you know that when you rent this machine you will need to check the 
toner every six weeks because the problem is looming.

However if you don't know much about a machine and you're not able to discern what exactly the problem is 
you would go with the M language so I understand that there's a problem with the machine and you said 
there was a noise near the heat sink so that may be a problem with the circuit will need to send somebody 
to check.
So here we could say that there's a problem lurking in the machine the problem is that we didn't see 
a problem in advance.
When we don't know about something, and when it is hidden we say it was lurking.
Looming is when it's obvious and we know it is coming.

The difference between cancer and back problems unfortunately cancer is something that lurks 
and back problems loom due to an accumulation of stress on the back on the spine.


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