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Jacek From Kwidzyn (Pomesania) Posted 20 years ago
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is supposed to.. was supposed to...

0 Hello!02br
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00can a native speaker imagine a sentence containing: 02br
00"has been supposed to...." or 02br
00"had beed supposed to..."02br
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00I have not found such a construction on the Internet...02br
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00thank you in advance, 02br
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0How about trying this:02br 02br 00If you are given an assignment which you are expected to complete in a week. A week later you still have not completed the assignment. 00 00 The red is already the past therefore "were" is used.

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  • 0How about trying this:02br 02br 00If you are given an assignment which you are expected to complete in a week.
  • A week later you still have not completed the assignment.
  • 00 00 The red is already the past therefore "were" is used.
  • e.
  • He 01font 00is supposed02font 00 to be studying but he is nowhere to be found.
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0How about trying this:02br
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00If you are given an assignment which you are expected to complete in a week. A week later you still have not completed the assignment. I can say “you 01font00were supposed02font00 to have it completed 01font00yesterday02font00 and you 01font
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0 No. I can't imagine a natural sounding sentence which contains those.02br
00 The idiom "supposed to" may be considered a semi-modal. As such, it does not occur in the perfect tenses and is never preceded by another modal verb. This limits us to "am/is/are supposed to" and "was/were supposed to". There is no "have been supposed to", "can be supposed to", "will be supposed t
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