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Meowmechon Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Which sentence is correct ?
1. He must have eaten my pizza before I came home.
2. He must have had eaten my pizza before I came home.
The scenario is assumed to set on present time point, a few hours after coming back home, with some thoughts given to infer the actuality of the event of eating pizza. Here I know the usage of Past perfect sentence requiring another past sentence to indicate an earlier sense of time, but does this rule apply to this deducing sentence ? Or simply "must have" would suffice to indicate the prior happening before "coming home" and also succeed in expressing the inferring tone? Thanks !
2. He must have had eaten my pizza before I came home.
The scenario is assumed to set on present time point, a few hours after coming back home, with some thoughts given to infer the actuality of the event of eating pizza. Here I know the usage of Past perfect sentence requiring another past sentence to indicate an earlier sense of time, but does this rule apply to this deducing sentence ? Or simply "must have" would suffice to indicate the prior happening before "coming home" and also succeed in expressing the inferring tone? Thanks !
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This one is correct. 1. He must have eaten my pizza before I came home.
- This one is correct.
- 1.
- He must have eaten my pizza before I came home.
- Or this: He had eaten my pizza before I came home.
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This one is correct.
1. He must have eaten my pizza before I came home.
Or this:
He had eaten my pizza before I came home.
1. He must have eaten my pizza before I came home.
Or this:
He had eaten my pizza before I came home.
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Thank you so much for your constant help AlpheccaStars !
Additionally, does the "have eaten" on "He must have eaten my pizza before I came home" actually is the result of
reduction from past present "had eaten" to "must have been" for the auxiliary added ? Thank you again !
Additionally, does the "have eaten" on "He must have eaten my pizza before I came home" actually is the result of
reduction from past present "had eaten" to "must have been" for the auxiliary added ? Thank you again !
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MeowmechonAdditionally, does the "have eaten" on "He must have eaten my pizza before I came home" actually is the result ofreduction from past present "had eaten" to "must have been" for the auxiliary added ?No. The auxiliaries are not used with the past perfect.
You can use modal auxiliary verbs in these patterns:
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