Rizan Malik Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Anyone could/might get...

1) Anyone could get a very nasty skin disease from bathing in dirty water.

2) Anyone might get a very nasty skin disease from bathing in dirty water.


Are they both general statements about possibility that do not refer to any particular time, ie, true for any and all time?

  

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Rizan Malik 1) Anyone could get a very nasty skin disease from bathing in dirty water. 2) Anyone might get a very nasty skin disease from bathing in dirty water. Are they both general statements about possibility that do not refer to any particular time, ie, true for any and all time?

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Rizan Malik

1) Anyone could get a very nasty skin disease from bathing in dirty water.

2) Anyone might get a very nasty skin disease from bathing in dirty water.

Are they both general statements about possibility that do not refer to any particular time, ie, true for any and all time?

They sound to me more like ways of excusi