zài / yǔ yán xué / kè shàng / lǎo shī / yòng / kě néng / zhè ge / cí / shuō míng / jù zi / de / qíng tài在语言学课上,老师用“可能”这个词说明句子的情态。In the linguistics class, the teacher used the word “possibly” to explain the modality of the sentence.