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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:10:54 +0000
Subject: Re: they should have been/tense question
From: HenHa...@dev.null (HenHanna)
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by: HenHanna - Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:10 UTC

Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> On Friday, December 24, 2021 at 12:32:22 AM UTC-5, arthurvv vart wrote:

>> 1) That crash was caused by a stupid error. The passengers of that plane died needlessly They should have been alive now.
>>
>> 2) That crash was caused by a stupid error. The passengers of that plane died needlessly They should be alive now.
>>
>> Which of the above is grammatically correct?

> Only (2).

> Cf. "They should have been rescued by now."

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some guy... who Dropped out of Medical School... (some years or Months ago) says:

I should be a doctor now.

I should've been a doctor now.

I should've been a doctor by now.

Ths last one... PTD might consider it [ungrammatical], but it sounds ok because BE can mean BECOME.

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Re: they should have been/tense question	HenHanna