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Message: [QUOTE="Muttsy, post: 95540, member: 960"] First, I don't know if I think the "might" was an inappropriate caveat given what we know. But Donnie is right, the apology is clearly qualified by a "might." " I deeply regret any statements I made that might have inhibited that from occurring or been insensitive to victims of abuse.” This is necessarily a parallel grammatical construction. The only way the second part of the sentence is grammatically comprehensible in relation to anything else in the sentence is if "might have" applies to it. " I deeply regret any statements I made that might have ... been insensitive to victims of abuse.” That is the only ellipsis that works. [/QUOTE]