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That is my logical conclusion, but I don’t know for certain, I am leaving this 5% because I am not certain.

I have evidence to make me believe that he is sick. You can say he must be sick, must expresses a strong degree of certainty, but it is still less than a hundred percent because remember, you don’t know, even when you use must, you’re kind of saying probably John is sick. Which modal verb can you use to express that? But you’re almost sure you know, that he is probably sick. You know, he is sick, but the important thing about our episode today is to learn how to express the degrees of certainty when you don’t know. You are telling the other person what you actually know. 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.