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Hi!

My opinion:

1) You'd better finish by tomorrow.


2) It's a pitty that I missed the movie, I'd like to have seen it.

This sentence is perfect. The problem is that some people say: "I would HAVE liked to have seen it."

I have read that a double "have" in that type of sentence is wrong. But, I say it that way all the time, and I think people know what I am saying.


3) I didn't expect you to change your mind suddenly.

All of your choices work. I have read that using the adverb after the verb it modifies is best, when you can. You can not always put it there. So anyway, that is why I like the above version best.

Hope this helps!

1 I always thought that "you'd better have finished by tommorrow" was the correct one, and "you'd better finish by tomorrow" was the shorthand one that people tended to use when being sloppy. The second implies that you are doing something tommorrow (and not before) - the first implies that you will have already done something before tommorrow.

2. That sentence is fine,

3. Those are all ok, but the third one feels a little awkward.

2) It's a pitty that I missed the movie, I'd like to have seen it.

Isn't it "....I had liked to have seen it"
or "I would have liked to have seen it" ?

I would choose this sentence

"I didn't expect you to suddenly change your mind."

Thanks, I'd go for it's a pitty that I missed the movie, I'd like to have it seen.This because it happened in the past .But I didn't get the difference between;

You'd better finish by tomorrow.

and

You'd better have finished by tomorrow.

the last series of questions are definately clumsy...
I personally wouldn't have thought any were really correct. I think the second is the most correct having the adjective (? going on a limb naming the form) before.

I didn't expect you to suddenly change your mind.