And it is actually important to use something like verb to be here, because you want to tell the other person that you’re not making a guess here. You just say, he is sick, no modal verbs are needed. And here we’re not talking about degrees of certainty at all. If you know, that means a hundred percent sure. Now the first obvious thing is when we know why John isn’t in class, we know that he is sick. John didn’t come to class and somebody’s asking why isn’t John in class. So without further ado, let’s start, let’s answer a very simple question. But the important thing is we’re going to talk about degrees of certainty and the model verbs we can use when we want to express different degrees of certainty. Of course, all the percentages I’m going to give you in this episode are going to be approximate. When you want to talk about certainty, how certain are you and how does that make any difference when you want to use modal verbs? Well, it makes a lot of difference. Today’s episode is about grammar and we will focus on a very important and a very common thing you need. Welcome to a new episode from English plus podcast.
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