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Problem with understanding a phrase
My friend wrote this sentence:
I have been set on an pen + Painter technique that I want to use for thesis which I am supposed to have been practicing like this entire time but I have done only one thing with it.
I would have never written the part in bold, I'd had written it as: which I should have been practicing...
Not that I think she is wrong, but I want to understand how is it that her structure is correct, and if my way of stating is poor. I think it really is a phrase I had never heard being used as I grew up, but I want to know how it is functional...?
I have been set on an pen + Painter technique that I want to use for thesis which I am supposed to have been practicing like this entire time but I have done only one thing with it.
I would have never written the part in bold, I'd had written it as: which I should have been practicing...
Not that I think she is wrong, but I want to understand how is it that her structure is correct, and if my way of stating is poor. I think it really is a phrase I had never heard being used as I grew up, but I want to know how it is functional...?
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The whole sentence is a bit of a mess. It should read something like this: I have been set on a pen-and-painter technique that I want to use for the thesis which I am supposed to have been working on all this time , but which I have done only one thing on . Should have = supposed to have .
- The whole sentence is a bit of a mess.
- It should read something like this: I have been set on a pen-and-painter technique that I want to use for the thesis which I am supposed to have been working on all this time , but which I have done only one thing on .
- Should have = supposed to have .
- Both are OK.
- If you haven't heard supposed to , then you didn't grow up in an English-speaking country.
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The whole sentence is a bit of a mess. It should read something like this:
I have been set on a pen-and-painter technique that I want to use for the thesis which I am supposed to have been working on all this time, but which I have done only one thing on.
Should have = supposed to have. Both are OK. If you haven't heard sup
I have been set on a pen-and-painter technique that I want to use for the thesis which I am supposed to have been working on all this time, but which I have done only one thing on.
Should have = supposed to have. Both are OK. If you haven't heard sup
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