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Inchoateknowledge

#249536 Thu, 27 Jul 06 08:23 PM

I will take you up on your words.
"I've never seen things like 'must not have contained' in any grammar book." Buy a decent book then.
'Must have been' exists so its negation: must not have been exists too. Replace the word "been" for "contained".
Before you give up English revise conditionals.
As regards verbals (not verbs):
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_verbals.html

Inchoateknowledge

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Conditionals, Grammar, Negations, Regards, Verbs

Pastsimple

#249538 Thu, 27 Jul 06 08:34 PM

I'm hesitating between Dutch and Swedish Wink [;)]

. Or perhaps your mother tongue?

I have an idea: the one who's not right will take up the mother tongue of the one who's right? What do you say?

You say: At least one of the three sentences is 100% correct.
I say: None of the three sentences is 100% correct.

Is that it?

Pastsimple

Joined on Thu, Feb 16 2006

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If you are a native speaker and find any grammar or stylistic mistakes in my posts, don't hesitate to tell me! I will really appreciate that.

Inchoateknowledge

#249540 Thu, 27 Jul 06 08:36 PM

jag prata pa svensk en lite.

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Pastsimple

#249541 Thu, 27 Jul 06 08:38 PM

Hey, wait a minute, you are a Swede? Wink [;)]

Pastsimple

Inchoateknowledge

#249547 Thu, 27 Jul 06 08:49 PM

I am going to prove you that this sentence is correct:

What would you have said verbals are if you had been allowed to say only one sentence and this sentence must not have contained the words: participle, gerund, infinitive?

This is called third conditional.
Would have + past participle; if + past perfect

My sentence definitely follows this rule.
If you do not think so, I am sorry for you.
must not have contained = it was necessary that the explanation did not not contain the words.
Do you still have doubts?

Inchoateknowledge

Conditionals, Gerunds, Past perfect

Inchoateknowledge

#249549 Thu, 27 Jul 06 08:53 PM

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Pastsimple wrote:
Hey, wait a minute, you are a Swede?

I have cousins living there.

I is the subject

have is the verb

living there is an adjectival phrase.

Inchoateknowledge

Verbs

Maple

#249550 Thu, 27 Jul 06 08:55 PM

Hi!, I've known why you asked the question, the definion of verbals should be:

words formed from verbs that take on the function of nouns and adjectives.

Maple

Joined on Tue, Jul 11 2006

An ESL student in China

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Nouns, Verbs

Pastsimple

#249555 Thu, 27 Jul 06 08:58 PM

Inchoateknowledge wrote:
I am going to prove you that this sentence is correct:

What would you have said verbals are if you had been allowed to say only one sentence and this sentence must not have contained the words: participle, gerund, infinitive?

This is called third conditional.
Would have + past participle; if + past perfect

My sentence definitely follows this rule.
If you do not think so, I am sorry for you.
must not have contained = it was necessary that the explanation did not not contain the words.
Do you still have doubts?

I do. Must not have contained is not the past perfect tense of mustn't contain. It isn't the past tense of mustn't contain either - in case you'd like to speak about the second conditional. Wink [;)]

Pastsimple

Conditionals, Gerunds, Past perfect, Past tenses, Tenses

Inchoateknowledge

#249556 Thu, 27 Jul 06 08:58 PM

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Definitely, Maple.

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