May have seemed to have been or seemed to have been
What's the difference between "seemed to have been floating" and "may have seemed to have been floating"?
To him, the strange object may have seemed to have been floating in the air like some strange UFO.
I was always told that the verbs need to be in the same tense within a sentence, but in this situation I am not sure if the second makes any sense.
Top answer
", is ungrammatical. ", is better but still ungrammatical. ".
- ", is ungrammatical.
- ", is better but still ungrammatical.
- ".
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The given sentence, "...may have seemed to have been floating...", is ungrammatical. If the sentence is changed to, "...seemed to have been floating...", is better but still ungrammatical. The sentence would be okay as "...seemed to be floating...".
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