Indicating likelihood
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Introduction
Speakers are able to indicate their opinion about how certain they are that something
is true or likely to happen in a number of ways 
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This file gives details of the ways that adverbials 
can be used to indicate degrees of likelihood,
doubt and certainty. Note that different adverbials indicate varying degrees of
likelihood:
Indicating high likelihood (certainty)
I will certainly be investigating these reports as a matter of urgency.
(Bank of English)
Indicating mid likelihood (reasonable probability)
And so I might, well I probably will, retouch on a couple of points that we talked on before. (Bank of English)
Indicating low likelihood (weak possibility)
But there will possibly be discussions about a support role at the appropriate time. (Bank of English)
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Introduction
Indicating high likelihood
