as you might (SHARED KNOWLEDGE) – English Grammar Profiler

In the English Grammar Profile, B1 point 90 in MODALITY is defined as:

‘might’ in phrases, such as ‘as you might know’, ‘have already heard’, to focus the reader on shared knowledge.

1 AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT, 6532 2 AS YOU MIGHT THINK. 3862

3 AS YOU MIGHT IMAGINE, 3657

4 AS YOU MIGHT HAVE GUESSED 2253

As you might have guessed, I’m a tissue engineer.

5 AS YOU MIGHT GUESS , 1541 6 AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT . 1295 7 AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT FROM 1066 8 AS YOU MIGHT KNOW , 939

9 AS YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED 833

10 AS YOU MIGHT THINK , 818 11 AS YOU MIGHT IMAGINE . 651 12 AS YOU MIGHT SUSPECT , 421

13 AS YOU MIGHT BE ABLE 385

14 AS YOU MIGHT GUESS FROM 382
15 AS YOU MIGHT ALREADY KNOW 367

As you might already know, 

there were persons involved in last night‘s shooting 

who are Wilson students.

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16 AS YOU MIGHT HAVE ALREADY 284 17 AS YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD 263 18 AS YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN 237 19 AS YOU MIGHT WANT TO 222 20 AS YOU MIGHT RECALL , 211 21 AS YOU MIGHT THINK ! 207 22 AS YOU MIGHT HAVE EXPECTED 196 23 AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT WITH 171 24 AS YOU MIGHT , YOU 162 25 AS YOU MIGHT REMEMBER , 150 26 AS YOU MIGHT LIKE . 147 27 AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT ) 135 28 AS YOU MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT 127 29 AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT THE 126 30 AS YOU MIGHT THINK IT 124 31 AS YOU MIGHT THINK AND 120

32 AS YOU MIGHT HOPE . 118

33 AS YOU MIGHT BE AWARE 117 34 AS YOU MIGHT HAVE GATHERED 116 35 AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT FOR 115 36 AS YOU MIGHT THINK TO 106

37 AS YOU MIGHT END UP 103

38 AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT OF 103

39 AS YOU MIGHT NEED TO 97

40 AS YOU MIGHT THINK ) 88 41 AS YOU MIGHT NOT BE 87 42 AS YOU MIGHT LIKE TO 86 43 AS YOU MIGHT HAVE READ 84 44 AS YOU MIGHT HAVE TO 80

45 AS YOU MIGHT NOTICE , 76

46 AS YOU MIGHT SAY , 68 47 AS YOU MIGHT REMEMBER FROM 68 48 AS YOU MIGHT THINK 65 49 AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT IT 62 50 AS YOU MIGHT WITH A 62 51 AS YOU MIGHT THINK ; 60 52 AS YOU MIGHT BE , 56

53 AS YOU MIGHT GUESS . 56

54 AS YOU MIGHT IF YOU 56 (doesn’t refer to shared knowledge)
55 AS YOU MIGHT HAVE HOPED 54 56 AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT IN 51 57 AS YOU MIGHT LIKE , 51 58 AS YOU MIGHT THINK : 50 59 AS YOU MIGHT HAVE IMAGINED 49 60 AS YOU MIGHT HAVE A 49 61 AS YOU MIGHT EXPECT : 49 62 AS YOU MIGHT THINK. – 49 63 AS YOU MIGHT THINK BECAUSE 47

64 AS YOU MIGHT ASSUME , 47

A2 vocabulary:

already, guess, guessed, hope, hoped, might, notice

B1:
expect, expected, imagine, imagined, noticed