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Originally posted by bob jenkins
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Originally posted by Back In The Saddle
What Mr. Grammar Guy was getting at is that your statement should properly have begun with the phrase: "Should have." I'll go one further, your statement should properly have begun with the phrase: "Should have gone." But hey, I'm just an upstart, wannabe Mr. Grammar Guy, filling in during the holidays 
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Correct. I was going to write " Should 'of gone and done tooked' English 101," but I thought that would have been piling on....
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... and it would still have been incorrect. The appropriate piling on correction would be, "Should 'of
done gone and tooked..."
But I'm not worried. You 3rd and 4th year people have to keep trying. You'll get it sooner or later.