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User666 Posted 7 years ago
Grammar

What is the difference between following?

You could have accepted the offer


You should have accepted the offer

  

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user666 You could have accepted the offer . It would have been possible for you to accept the offer. Normally it implies that you didn't accept it.

  • user666 You could have accepted the offer .
  • It would have been possible for you to accept the offer.
  • Normally it implies that you didn't accept it.
  • In certain contexts it can mean the speaker doesn't know whether you accepted it, but is speculating that you did.
  • user666 You should have accepted the offer .
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user666You could have accepted the offer.

It would have been possible for you to accept the offer. Normally it implies that you didn't accept it. In certain contexts it can mean the speaker doesn't know whether you accepted it, but is speculating that you did.

user666You should have acce

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