one of my own sisters-in-law had suggested I might could find something suitable at the Makely store.
source:
COCA
Entry:
1054
Example:
one of my own sisters-in-law had suggested I might could find something suitable at the Makely store.
Modal 1:
might
Modal 2:
could
Gender:
Female
Race/Ethnicity:
Unknown
Age:
unknown
Level of Education:
Unknown
Home Community, Town, or State:
NC (Unknown)
Location Collected:
Fictional Novel
Year:
2005
Relation to Addressee:
omniscient narrator
Medium:
Written
Sentence Structure:
1.4
Status:
Naturalistic
Notes:
Source: Maron, Margaret. 2005. 'Rituals of the Season' New York: Mysterious Press. (author is from NC)
Full Context: but my bossy, opinionated family wouldn't feel it was a real wedding cake if I only had rosebuds and ribbon icing. I'd ordered a cake topper off the Internet-one in which the groom was dressed in a formal blue police uniform-but it still hadn't come. Kate Bryant, Dwight's artistic sister-in-law, had volunteered to paint the uniform brown like the one Dwight would be wearing and to change the bridal gown, too, but she was going to need a couple of days to work her magic and one of my own sisters-in-law had suggested I might could find something suitable at the Makely store. " Sorry, " said the clerk. " You should have tried us back in the spring. " " Back in the spring, I didn't know I was going to need one, " I told her. At that point, I should have walked out of the store and headed straight back to Dobbs, but I saw so many cool stocking stuffers for my numerous nieces and nephews that I completely lost track of the time. It did