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<p>摘自：<a href="http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/46869-may-not-may-not.html">http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/46869-may-not-may-not.html</a></p>
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<p>What is the difference between "may be not" and "may not be" ?</p>
<p>Example: <br />
- She may be not a student. <br />
- She may not be a student. <br />
==> Do the two sentences have the same meaning?</p>
<p>[1] She may be not a student, ... <br />
Meaning => True, she is not a student, she's a teacher, but she works just as hard as a student. She studies English at home on her own time.</p>
<p>[2] She may not be a student. <br />
Meaning => There is a possibility that she is not a student.</p>
<p>Modal may, like modal must, is ambiguous between epistemic and deontic modality:</p>
<p>Deontic modality <br />
Ex: She may go to school. <br />
=> permission; e.g., she is allowed to go.</p>
<p>Negated <br />
Ex: She may not go to school. <br />
=> permission to go to school is denied. <br />
Epistempic modality <br />
Ex: She may be at school. <br />
=> possibility;e.g., It is possible that she is at school. </p>
<p>Negated <br />
Ex: She may not be at school. <br />
=> There's a possibility that she is not at school. </p>
<p>Ex: She may be not at school, but ... <br />
=> True, she is not at school, she's at home, but she's at home studying right now as if she were in school. <br />
Does that help? </p>
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