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Should have gotten or get?
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30/01/2009 02:09:46
John Ryan
Captain-Cooker Appreciation Society
Taumata Whakatangi ..., New Zealand
 
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Naomi, "got" isn't such a great word for technical writing.

For past tense, "you still should have received results" will be acceptable except to the most pedantic bore. Or how about a passive tense but more precise construct: "results still should have been displayed/sent to you/whatever got means in context" or even "results still should have appeared".

For present tense, "you should receive results" or "results should be displayed" are both correct.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us.
"
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
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