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Old 03-Mar-2006, 13:21
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Default Re: modal verbs

Sorry for the vagueness. I was trying to ask, say, 'He would come to the party tonight' and ' He might come to the party tonight', the former sentence shows that the person is more likely to come than the latter, right? So now i have a bunch of modal verbs, as follows.
might, may, could, would, should
I wonder if you could tell me the the 'strength' of them in decreasing order (is it appropriate to say decreasing order?)
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