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Teo Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

might V/ might be Ving

1. Elaine might be coming to tea tomorrow.

2. Elaine might come to tea tomorrow.

What's the difference in meaning between the two sentences?
  

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Teo 1. Elaine might be coming to tea tomorrow. 2.

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Teo1. Elaine might be coming to tea tomorrow.

2. Elaine might come to tea tomorrow.

What's the difference in meaning between the two sentences?

I'm sorry I'm not answering to your question. I also have a question simmilar to yours.

What's the difference between

1. You should be reading a lot.

2. You shoul
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There is no difference in meaning in either case provided by Teo and Mack.

You should read a lot
You should be reading a lot
You should be doing a lot of reading

All of the above means to read a lot.
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Teo1. Elaine might be coming to tea tomorrow.

2. Elaine might come to tea tomorrow.

What's the difference in meaning between the two sentences?

Without more context, it's very difficult to assess the difference. The meanings are very similar.

But I would say that on the whole they're used slightly differently, as in
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Hello Teo

This is the only comment I can find on the link, about a different sentence, that uses "should":

<The first applies uniquely to the present, whereas the second could refer to a future time>

This response doesn't apply to your examples on this thread, though.

(Was it the right link?)

MrP
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As bald sentences, I'd agree that there's very little difference. But it seems to me that we find them in slightly different contexts.

MrP