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Modal Verb + have + past participle

Looking out of your window in the morning, you notice that all the flowers in your
garden are missing.
What happened? You take a guess at it:
"A rabbit might have eaten all my flowers."
Let's take a look at that form.
might (modal) + have + eaten (past participle verb)
We use the modal might (you can also use may or could) because they show that
we are not 100% sure about what happened. We are speculating about past
events (guessing what we think happened). We then must use have followed by a
past participle verb. We use 'must' when we have a stronger opinion about what
happened.
Here are some other examples:
"My neighbour could have stolen the flowers"
"The wind might have blown them all away."

Erica must ___ gone out. I can't see her.

has

could

have

He looks tired. He might have ___ awake all night.

has

an

could

been

I think James must have ___ all the milk. There's none left.

drinking

drank

drink

drunk

Look at Lilly's suntan. She must have ___ somewhere hot on


vactaion.

goes

go

going

gone

She's late. She may have ___ the wrong road.

taken

taked

has

took

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