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Mar 20, 2018 · This is definitely idiomatic, but it does include two time-frames, present (I can't find) and past (though recent, of course) (Have you seen). B: "It might be in the car." addresses the present situation, and is the standard answer. B: "It might have been in the car." is not incorrect, and might be paraphrased as "You know, I think I remember ...
Oct 5, 2015 · 2. In the sentence "The door might have been closed", the main verb is already in the perfect form (the equivalent non-perfect sentence would be "The door might be closed"). However, it is not the present perfect, but the perfect infinitive, since after "might" we use an infinitive form of the verb. There is no need and no way of shifting the ...
11. Could and might are often, but not always, interchangeable. He might have come / studied = 'We don’t know whether has come / studied or not', but you could substitute could. If you want to indicate ability or permission, however, you need He could have come / studied = ‘He had the ability to come / study.'.
May 13, 2019 · 1. Both are correct. One indicates a different time frame from the other. Had the doctor been more careful, my cousin might still be alive. This sentences describes the PRESENT time. My brother would still be alive NOW. Had the doctor been more careful, my cousin might still have been alive. This sentences describes a PAST time.
Jan 31, 2017 · Ex 2: The baby might have been sleeping for 2 hours (similar to Past perfect, the action had lasted from the past to a point in the past) But I am not sure my thinking is right or not because noone has ever brought this up.
Mar 30, 2011 · He has something. He might have something. The same rule applies when using "have" to indicate past tense. I will bold the conjugated verbs in the following examples. The following verbs are in infinitive forms. He is sick. He has been sick. He might have been sick. This is actually a pretty bad answer as the modalness of 'might' is the source ...
Mar 18, 2015 · A good question with some good answers that should help demystify the meanings and usages of can, could, may, and might What is the difference between 'can', 'could', 'may' and 'might'? and here is a question which I answered that may be of some help “It was not to be closed” or “It should not have been closed”. – Mari-Lou A.
Now if you want to use the form 'must have been', it works with the first example: 'If they were not at their desks, clerks must have been in the garden'. But it doesn't work with the second example. In that case you would have to say 'As the fire alarm had gone off, the clerks should have been in the garden'. Share. Improve this answer.
Nov 16, 2015 · The saddest are “it might have been.” From Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle Chap. 123. I had originally thought Steinbeck’s novel title Of Mice and Men evoked this couplet (which is a mashup of lines by Whittier and some by Burns), and thus effectively evoked the expression “it might have been.” But the couplet apparently was not ...
Mar 17, 2016 · For all we know, she might have been undergoing counselling. However, people don’t often make this distinction in today’s English, and it’s generally acceptable to use either may [or] might to talk about the present/future or the past: Present or future event. √ She thinks she may be going crazy. √ She thinks she might be going crazy.
