He thought, I have done pretty good in my life, and if I keep on I might could be a true success.
source:
COCA
Entry:
1067
Example:
He thought, I have done pretty good in my life, and if I keep on I might could be a true success.
Modal 1:
might
Modal 2:
could
Gender:
Male
Race/Ethnicity:
Unknown
Age:
unknown
Level of Education:
Unknown
Home Community, Town, or State:
Unknown
Location Collected:
Fictional Story
Year:
1998
Relation to Addressee:
interior monologue
Medium:
Written
Sentence Structure:
1.2
Status:
Naturalistic
Notes:
Source: Weaver, Gordon. 1998. 'If a Man Truly in His Heart' in Literary Review 42:1. (author is from Moline, IL)
Full Context: the downpayment for a ranch style house where all the refinery men lived. He would be deputy to Marice's uncle until the sheriff died or retired, and then it might could be he would win his own election to sheriff. He was a good soldier, an outstanding MP in the army. He had been too small to play football, but he could handle bigger men who got drunk in roadhouses and came home to beat on their family. # He thought, I have done pretty good in my life, and if I keep on I might could be a true success. He tried thinking on ahead how it might be in years to come, but there were no particulars, and his head ached from lacking sleep and having to smile and be the joke for the sheriff and having no one he could talk with. I will think only of this very exact moment, Eldon thought, but there was nothing to think about in that. He was glad when Gary Lee Stringer spoke again. # " You don't favor you uncle the