maybe

May be she will be there tonight.
Maybe she will be there tonight.

Maybe is one word and means ‘perhaps’. It normally goes at the beginning of a sentence: ‘Maybe she’s at home.’

May be consists of the modal verb may and the verb be. It comes after the subject: ‘She may be at home.’

Compare: ‘Maybe she is tired.’ ‘She may be tired.’

Check our grammar lesson on the difference between maybe and may be.