shootingstar
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The lads vowed I was the soul of good company and the prince of lecturers; and - so wonderful an institution is the popular press - if you had seen the notices next day in all the papers you must have supposed my evening's entertainment an unqualified success.
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(The Wrecker by R. L. Stevenson and L. Osbourne, Chapter vi (at the end))
I have dealt with this problem many a time. Does must have supposed have or convey the meaning of the Conditional iii-sentence there. My problem is must isn't like should, would, could and might. It normally has an indicative - affirmative meaning. It doesn't have a conditional meaning normally. Now, what is true?
The lads vowed I was the soul of good company and the prince of lecturers; and - so wonderful an institution is the popular press - if you had seen the notices next day in all the papers you must have supposed my evening's entertainment an unqualified success.
. . .
(The Wrecker by R. L. Stevenson and L. Osbourne, Chapter vi (at the end))
I have dealt with this problem many a time. Does must have supposed have or convey the meaning of the Conditional iii-sentence there. My problem is must isn't like should, would, could and might. It normally has an indicative - affirmative meaning. It doesn't have a conditional meaning normally. Now, what is true?
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