Can I take a provisional.....

[ManinBlack]

Might may also be in the future. As in he might play golf tomorrow.
May may also be in the past.
May also means permitted as does might

In practice, any distinction is rarely made today and the two words are generally interchangeable.

Perhaps the title of the thread should have been "May I take a provisional" or "Might I have taken a provisional" I got "O" level English in 1963.

 

[chrisd]

Perhaps the title of the thread should have been "May I take a provisional" or "Might I have taken a provisional" I got "O" level English in 1963.

Whilst I got mine in knitting and Spanish dancing

 

[Ethan]

Whilst I got mine in knitting and Spanish dancing

Must be difficult to knit and do Spanish dancing at the same time. Especially if you are holding castanets.

 

[chrisd]

Must be difficult to knit and do Spanish dancing at the same time. Especially if you are holding castanets.

I'd prefer not to talk about that particular accident, it still makes my eyes water

 

[Colin L]

Quite easily - as, perhaps, in the case in question.

Removal/absence of superfluous text would still make a statement clear, but adding/keeping the superfluous text can make it clearer.

How can anything be clearer than clear? Without sounding like a washing powder advert, that is.

 

[Foxholer]

How can anything be clearer than clear? Without sounding like a washing powder advert, that is.

There is actually an ISO measurement for clarity!

And what is 'clear' to some folk certainly requires further clarification to others. My brother simply could not understand why I couldn't follow his 'clear logic' wrt the mathematics of black holes!

While you (or I) might understand it immediately, DelC might need the additional (superfluous) text in order to prevent mythological (or maybe 'illogical myth') quantum leaps to an erroneous conclusion!