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Modal perfects: reflect on past possibilities

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Use modal plus have plus a past participle to comment on an earlier event. Choose must have for a strong deduction, might have or may have for possibility, could have for an available but unreal option, should have for past advice, and cannot have for a strong negative deduction.

Ravi must have taken the earlier train because he is already at the office.
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