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MUST HAVE MUST HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE We use ito make a deductionabout something that has happened. Wefeel quite sure about it. Example: Ifyou can't find your car keys you must have left theminthe house. N'T HAVE CAN'T HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE Weare making a deduction about somethingthat didn’t happenin the past based on present evidence. Example: He can’thave fallenin love with her. She’s married. SHOULD HAVE SHOULD HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE Use itto express the ideathat something was desirable or needed but didn’ttake place. Example: should have called you yesterday but | forgot. Shouldn't have:Somethingtook place but it wasn'tdesirable: You stiouldn’thave drunk so much. Now you feel terrible. MIGHT/MAY/COULD HAVE. MIGHT/MAY/COULD HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE Use themto say that somethingwas possible inthe past but we are nat sure. Example: I think saw Sallyat the cinemabut! might /may /could have been wrong. It was very dark. NEEDN'T HAVE NEEDN'T HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE It’s the opposite meaningto ‘should have’. Itindicates that something was done but it wasn’t necessary. The person who did it thought it was necessary. Example: You needn’thave bought more milk. We've got Sc MIGHT/COULD HAVE MIGHT/COULD HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE Use them to say that something was possible inthe past but we know that it didn’tin fact happen Example: IfMary hadn't beenthere, my son might/could have \ allen down and hurt himself. He was 0 lucky.

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