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'must have', 'might have', 'should have' & 'can't have' to talk about the past: Live English Class

BBC Learning English · English & Languages · 29 min · 79 thousand views · published 2026-11-05

What happened? 😮 If you want to talk about what you think happened in the past, you'll need to use modal verbs like 'must have', 'might hav

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