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==Adverb== | |||
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# If you say that '''perhaps''' something will happen or that '''perhaps''' it is true, you mean it may happen or be true. | |||
#: '''''Perhaps''' someday I'll learn how to drive.'' | |||
#: ''If I tried again, '''perhaps''' it might work.'' | |||
# You use '''maybe''' when you are not sure about something. | |||
#: ''We shouldn't do it, we don't want to do it, and '''perhaps''' most importantly, we don't have the money to do it.'' | |||
#: ''Nokia is '''perhaps''' Finland's best-known company.'' | |||
===Synonyms=== | |||
*[[maybe]] | |||
===Antonyms=== | |||
*[[certainly]] | |||
Revision as of 22:00, 29 April 2016
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- If you say that perhaps something will happen or that perhaps it is true, you mean it may happen or be true.
- Perhaps someday I'll learn how to drive.
- If I tried again, perhaps it might work.
- You use maybe when you are not sure about something.
- We shouldn't do it, we don't want to do it, and perhaps most importantly, we don't have the money to do it.
- Nokia is perhaps Finland's best-known company.