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Santosh121 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Police
*That must have been at least 10 years that the police have been searching for the criminal. Is the sentence grammatically correct?*
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* It must have been: more correct in most cases.
- * It must have been: more correct in most cases.
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For me, this would be more natural:
It must be at least ten years that the police have been searching for the criminal.
It must have been ten years ago that the police began searching for the criminal.
It must be at least ten years that the police have been searching for the criminal.
It must have been ten years ago that the police began searching for the criminal.
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santosh121*That must have been at least 10 years that the police have been searching for the criminal. Is the sentence grammatically correct?*What are you trying to do with those asterisks? You are misusing them.
One correct use of the asterisk would be to mark a sentence as ungrammatical, such as the one you are asking about: *That must have been at l
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