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2.5.11: Past Modal Exercise- Should Have + Past Participle

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    Past Modal Exercise:  Should Have + Past Participle

    Exercise 47:  Consider the following situations and then tell what the people should or shouldn't have done, please.

    1.  The man lost all his money at the race track betting on horses.

     

    2.  The man's wife gave him some of her money so that he could gamble again.

     

    3.  My car broke down on the highway because the engine was low on oil.

     

    4.  My brother lost his job because he argued with his boss and told his boss that he quit.

     

    5.  While I was driving to school, I saw an accident in which a man drove through a red light while speeding.

     

    6.  My mother smoked all her life and died of lung cancer.

     

    7.  My friend borrowed $1,000 from me and never paid me back.

     

    8.  Yesterday was my mother's birthday and I didn't buy her a present because I forgot it was her birthday.

     

    9.  Yesterday at work, my friend felt very bad because he had gotten drunk the night before and he had a very bad hangover in the morning.

     

    10.  I didn’t go to bed until late last night because I had to write this exercise.

     

    11.  My students didn't do their homework.

     

    12.  The young girl drank too much wine and got very sick.

     

    13.  My son didn’t call home because he forgot his phone in his house.


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