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Tue 19 Dec, 2017 01:43 am
Three people were injured in an accident. The driver and the front passenger died at the scene of the accident. The rear passenger was seriously injured. Newspaper reports suggested that the driver may have been drunk at the time of the incident.
Shouldn't it be 'might' (past) instead of 'may', (present), as the driver was killed in the accident?
Thanks.
May or might, because it is unknown whether he was drunk.
@centrox,
centrox wrote:
May or might, because it is unknown whether he was drunk.
To clarify, you can use either may or might for past situations where it is unknown e.g. whether he was drunk, but you use might for past situations where something could have been true, but it is known that it wasn't, e.g. the car crashed:; I might have been killed.
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