MODAL PERFECT

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modal perfect. past edition

Regrets, advice, speculations and more!

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MODAL PERFECT- THE PAST

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MAY/ MIGHT HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE

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Guess or speculation about the past.

A: Why aren't the kids from the other town in class? It's quarter past nine!B: I don't know. Their bus might have been late again.

My mom is not answering the phone. She may have left it at home.

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COULD HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE

• Ability/capability to do something in the past (but wasn't done in the end)

Americans could have re-elected Donald Trump.

• Gentle criticism

Hey! You could have called me. You knew I was in town.I could have guided you!

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SHOULD HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE

• Regret about past mistakes

We should have won the match but we didn't because we weren't playing as a team .

• Recommendations

You should have added the salt at the end.

SHOULDN'T

• Critique

You should have been here an hour ago!

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MUST HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE

• CERTAINTY. What we believe is certain. We can't find other explanation.

James always burns his meals, he is a really bad cook. Last night we had a delicious meal at his place. He must have bought it...

I just saw Charlie driving a Porche. He must have won the lottery.

• Logical conclusion.

Kamala must have felt excited for becoming the first female VP.

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WOULD HAVE + PAST PARTICIPLE

• WILLINGNESS. Desire to do something in the past which was not accomplished.

I would have helped you with the party... I was only a phone call away.

• Third Conditional. Possible consequences for a past possibility.

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1- Use a modal perfect to speculate about the following pictures

Virginia Torrecilla- cancer survivor1st match back

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1- Use a modal perfect to speculate about the following pictures

Ilona Koval, a woman from Odesa, Ukraine, weeps as she travels in Palanca, Moldova, with some of the girls she trained as figure skaters.

Greta Thunberg briefly detained at coal protest in Germany Thunberg was held at the Garzweiler 2 mine near the village of Lützerath, but released after an identity check

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1- Use a modal perfect to speculate about the following pictures

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1- Use a modal perfect to speculate about these three stories

Chris Rock and Will Smith

2- Is there anything that you would have done last summer, but you didn't have the chance to?

3- Is there anything that you could have done in the first term and now you regret not doing it?