Engleski jezik 1 (N.V)

Indirect speech

Modals plus perfect infinitive

Trebalo je da nas obavestite da ne dolazite, jer smo mogli da odlozimo predavanje. Mora da ste zaboravili da pozovete, ili ste mozda mislili da nema potrebe. Rekli ste da smo napravili plan prethodne nedelje, ali to se nije moglo desiti , jer mi u to vreme nismo ni bili u Beogradu. Mora da ste pobrkali datume. Ja sam vas pitala da li zelite da odlozimo sastanak, ali vi ste tvrdili da je sve pod kontrolom.

Nije bilo potrebe da donosite kompjuter, sve smo mogli da uradimo u nasoj kancelariji. Mozda vam je na sa asistentkinja rekla da ga donesete znajuci da je sastanak trebalo da se odrzi u 5 tog dana. Nazalost izgleda da nije ni trebalo da zakazujemo sastanak znajuci da nista nije bilo pripremjeno na vreme.

You should have informed us that you were not coming, so we could have postponed the lecture. You must have forgotten to call us, or you may have thought that there was no need. You said that you had made a plan the week before, but that could not have happened, because we were not in Belgrade at the time. You must have mixed up the dates. I asked you if you wanted to cancel the meeting but you claimed that everything was under control.

You needn`t have brought your computers, we could have done everything in our office. Our assistant might have told you to bring them, knowing that the meeting was to have been held at 5. Unfortunately it seems that we shouldn`t have scheduled the meeting at all, knowing that nothing had been prepared in time.