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Viceidol Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
"may/might not have done"?
0 A: "Sue is very late." 02 br
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00 B:"She 01 b 01 font 00 may 02 font 02 b 00 / 01 b 01 font 01 font 00 might 02 font 00 not 02 font 00 have caught 02 b 00 her train." (=It is possible that she didn't catch her train.) 02 br
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00 Am I right in using "may/might not have done" here? Thank you for help!! 0-
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00 B:"She 01 b 01 font 00 may 02 font 02 b 00 / 01 b 01 font 01 font 00 might 02 font 00 not 02 font 00 have caught 02 b 00 her train." (=It is possible that she didn't catch her train.) 02 br
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00 Am I right in using "may/might not have done" here? Thank you for help!! 0-
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0 You must use Might when you want to refer to the past and in this situation you can not use May. 0-
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01 cite 10 Anonymous 12 cite 10 You must use Might when you want to refer to the past and in this situation you can not use May. 12 blockquote10 Then the combination 01 i 00 may not have caught 02 i 00 can never be used? In your opinion, under what circumstances can it be used, if any? Can you give an
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0 Anon. You remind me of my over meticulous high school teacher. She would try to seperate everything into different categories. Mostly, she was wrong. I am 01 u 00 still (but nowadays I am recovering) 02 u 00 under her effect. 0-
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