[lit-ideas] Maybe Maybe

  • From: jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 16:03:23 -0400

I wonder if you use "maybe". I do, when I want to sound American. Otherwise I use "p´rhaps". Now: maybe is originally "may + be", right?


Therefore, it is grammatical to use it as an adverb,

"Maybe a whore".

Shouldn´t that be:

"She may be a whore"

J. L. Speranza
Bordighera
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