"Hotel workers suspect that the fire was ignited by a cigarette and that a guestmay have thrown the cigarette into a bush from the pool deck."The modalauxiliary verb phrase"may have thrown”in the sentence expresses______.
A: high possibility in the past
B: low possibility in the present
C: high possibility in the present
D: low possibility in the past
A: high possibility in the past
B: low possibility in the present
C: high possibility in the present
D: low possibility in the past
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- Which of these followings are notions? A: Present time, past time, and future time B: Certainty and possibility C: Agent and instrument; D: Relationship between people and objects
- We use “————” to refer to weak possibility in the present and future.
- The authorities should have been____to the possibility of invasion .
- The aphotic zone (bottom of the ocean) will have ____ and ____ while the photic zone (surface of the ocean) will have ____ and ____. A: low temperature, low salinity; high temperature, high salinity B: low temperature, high salinity; high temperature, low salinity C: high temperature, high salinity; low temperature, low salinity D: high temperature, low salinity; low temperature, high salinity E: both have equal temperature and salinity
- I have not _______the possibility of his turning up so soon.