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She must pack for the trip. (Ей надо собирать веши в дорогу.) The perfect infinitive indicates a past action. Did you always live with your father? You must have led quite a busy social life (evidently you led...). The perfect continuous infinitive indicates the duration of the past action, a process in the past. It must have been raining when you left (ev idently it was raining when you left). They must have been working all the time. They look very tired (evidently they have been working all the time). Sfust expressing probability is not used: a) with reference to the future. Instead of the modal verb the adverbs probably and evidently are used. Me will probably feel lonely. b) in negati\e and interrogative forms. There are several ways of expressing the negativ e meaning of probability in such sentences: by negative affixes, or negative pronouns or lexically. 1. You must have misunderstood me. 2. They must have been inattentive. 3. She must have failed to recognize you. 4. I le must have had no chance to warn you. 5. The letter must have never reached them. 6. The letter must have been left unanswered. 7. No one must have seen him there. 101
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