We should have sent you the installation cd in your packet. vs We would have sent you the installation CD in your packet

Both phrases are correct, but they convey slightly different meanings. 'We should have sent you the installation CD in your packet' implies that it was the right thing to do, but it may not have been done. 'We would have sent you the installation CD in your packet' suggests a hypothetical situation where the action of sending the CD was dependent on another condition.

Last updated: April 05, 2024 • 133 views

We should have sent you the installation cd in your packet.

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to express that sending the installation CD in the packet was the correct or expected action in the past, but it may not have happened.

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We should have sent you the installation cd in your packet.
We should have sent the boys on a vacation with their dads and just stayed home.
We should have sent them to look elsewhere.
I knew we should have sent her to St. Mary's.
"Maybe we should have sent our general into retirement!" said the Gnuffs.
It seems to me that, above all, we should have sent a clear message - things have changed and nothing will be the same.
That we should have sent him back on an empty stomach?
Mr Howitt recently, in another meeting, suggested that we should have sent EU electoral observers from this House to confirm whether fraud had actually taken place.
We should have sent a card.
Maybe we should have sent you an announcement.
We shouldn't have sent them alone.
Maybe we shouldn't have sent Homer Simpson into that den of sin.
We shouldn't have sent condolence money.
We should never have sent the militia in place of the regulars.
We shouldn't have sent those ships.
Maybe we should not have sent it since the invitation was turned down.
Maybe we shouldn't have sent Greg to get our food.
We should really have sent it last week, but the inspector would definitely want to see it today.
We shouldn't have sent her in there alone.
We never should have sent the ship back for supplies.
We never should have sent the ship back for supplies.

Alternatives:

We were supposed to send you the installation CD in your packet.

We would have sent you the installation CD in your packet

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to talk about a hypothetical situation in the past where sending the installation CD was dependent on another condition or circumstance.

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We would have sent you the installation CD in your packet
We would have sent him back to prison already.
Had we known of his presence here in Rome, we would have sent him home.
You really think we would have sent up those expeditions if we'd known?
Captain, in the old days, we would have sent a couple of detectives to Boston to find out more information about how this Jim Gilmer disappeared, but I can't break my budget to dig up background information on someone who's officially dead.
If he were alive, don't you think we would have sent for him?
We would have sent a telegram to her husband...
We wouldn't have sent for the police.
We would then have sent the peoples of Central and Eastern Europe a signal of incalculable political consequences.
95 Say: Had there been in the earth angels walking about as settlers, We would certainly have sent down to them from the heaven an angel as an apostle.
We would have liked to have sent a signal to the Commission by the mid-term review as to how we view the common agricultural policy.
In addition, we would like to thank all the European governments that have sent help, and also the Commission for its coordinating role.
All the ministers have sent wreaths.
Meaning our missing scientist could have sent it.
Have sent us an unscheduled load of toilet paper.
I wouldn't have sent you out.
His parents have sent him abroad.
Most Member States have sent in appropriate information, especially regarding funding.
We have sent Members a pack containing detailed information.
If we hadn't killed that alien, it would have sent him where it sent everybody else.
The journal feature tracks all your activities by sproviding a record of messages you have sent or received, calls you have made and letters you have sent.

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We might have sent you the installation CD in your packet if we had known.

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