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Anon006 Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

Could/would/might/may

Are these all okay:

I decided to give the movie industry another shot because in my mind I thought this time may/might/could/would be different!

  

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Only 'may' sounds off to my ear. It's 'thought ... might'.

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Only 'may' sounds off to my ear.

It's 'thought ... might'. The two go together so often that 'thought ... may' sounds wrong.

CJ