Model: G – Just imagine, the person who called me to the White
House was Marjorie Tench! (surprise / doubt)
Y – Can it have been Ms. Tench? It can’t have been her,
she’s the President’s senior adviser. What did she need
you for?
1. She spoke about a bill called the Space Commercialization Promotions Act. I had never heard about it before. (supposition with a shade of doubt) 2. Imagine, Congress has passed the Space Commercialization Bill all four times it has seen it. (surprise / doubt; near certainty) 3. Tench thinks that if NASA is privatized, space science will die. (strong advice) 4. She has heard petitions from companies who want to build neon billboards that blink advertisements in the nighttime sky. (doubt / disbelief; advice) 5. In fact, there have been petitions from space hotels and tourist attractions whose proposed operations include ejecting their trash into the void of space and creating orbiting trash heaps. (supposition with a shade of doubt; advice) 6. Then Ms. Tench showed me Sexton’s financial records. (disbelief / doubt; near certainty) 7. She claims my candidate is accepting bribes from aerospace companies. (surprise; supposition with a shade of doubt) 8. That terrible woman suggested that I should help her discredit the senator’s ethics. (duty / obligation / necessity; advice) 9. And what if she goes public with compromising photos? (forced necessity; absence of necessity) 10. The awful thing happened later, I overheard the senator’s conversation with aerospace men. He is really involved with them. (disbelief; supposition with a shade of doubt) 11. Shall I phone Tench? I am to give her a written statement by 8 o’clock. (advice; absence of necessity)