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it may occur vs it may occurs

The correct phrase is "it may occur." The word "may" indicates a future possibility and should be used with the base form of the verb "occur."
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it may occur

This phrase is correct. 'Occur' is the base form of the verb and should not be conjugated with 's' because 'may' is already indicating the future possibility.

Use 'it may occur' to express a possibility of something happening in the future.

Examples:

  • It may occur tomorrow.
  • It may occur if the conditions are right.
  • It may occur at any moment.
  • Pendulous melanocytes: a characteristic feature of melasma and how it may occur. Br J Dermatol. 2012 Mar;166(3):684-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2011.10648.x ...
  • Iconic prosody is deeply connected to iconic gesture, and it may occur just as frequently. In O. Fischer, K. Akita, & P. Perniss (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of ...
  • Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV): it may occur after dental implantology. A mini topical review. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci. 2015 Oct;19(19):3543-7 ...
  • Pendulous melanocytes: a characteristic feature of melasma and how it may occur. D.J. Lee ,. D.J. Lee. Department of Dermatology, Ajou University School of ...
  • Sep 13, 2023 ... Ask you administrator to change it" may occur in Sage 2023 Product Update 3 Environment. 1 minute read time. With the recently released Sage ...
  • Jan 1, 2023 ... It may occur without cause, or it may be triggered by: Alcohol withdrawal; Emotional stress; Exposure to cold; Medicines that cause narrowing ...
  • Oct 14, 2023 ... Or it may occur if you have seizures without regaining full consciousness in between them. People with status epilepticus have an increased ...
  • Jan 24, 2023 ... It may occur as early as age 9, or as late as age 16. The average age of menstruation in the United States is about 12 years. Girls growth ...
  • Apr 29, 2020 ... Thus, identifying where it may occur can help identify where there may be a risk of pyrrhotite being included in crushed stone production.
  • ... it may occur. Urban Areas are also prone to flooding in short time-spans and, sometimes, rainfall (from the same storm) over an urban area will cause ...

Alternatives:

  • it might occur
  • it could occur
  • it is possible that it occurs
  • it is likely to occur
  • it is probable that it occurs

it may occurs

This phrase is incorrect. 'Occurs' is not the correct form of the verb in this context.

  • Oct 23, 2020 ... Describe a bug. Pasted blocks are not sanitized, It may occurs XSS attack! Steps to reproduce: Copy blocks includes Click me! Paste blocks.
  • Jul 9, 2020 ... It occurs in collaborative models using Team for Capella but it may occurs in other cases i guess. Best regards. Philippe. pdulth 7 July 2020 ...
  • Nov 27, 2018 ... I opened this file on other PC, and it is broken. It may occurs in small document like 16x16. ahabgreybeard. Registered Member.
  • May 5, 2021 ... Then-export ,click 1x or higher. REMEMBER to select the # layer you need. (Left sidebar ). Otherwise,it may occurs that there are many ...
  • Jul 25, 2007 ... From my experience it may occurs when: - there is an unblocked bridge loop in your network. It means a packet which goes out from a bridge ...
  • May 17, 2020 ... But it may occurs. What is the problem, bad BCM? or what. And one thing more, today i pressed the unlock button and car act like 2 times ...
  • May 25, 2024 ... ... it may occurs, like tree branches stem out from the same origins. This beautiful soul will be missed at ToFF. @tomoffinlandfoundation ...
  • Feb 2, 2022 ... If not, it may occurs unwanted comportments with modifiers,materials, etc… That's why after the resize steps, i apply the scale with CTL A ...
  • 2 days ago ... An Internet search suggests that this is a common problem; that it may occurs more often with smaller providers--Tracfone often being ...
  • Sep 21, 2023 ... When using Opsrey to process HERMES data, it may occurs error in OspreyProcess when requiring “op_freqrange” funtion.

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