you should call them vs you should called them

The correct phrase is 'you should call them'. 'Called' is the past tense of 'call', while 'call' is the base form of the verb that should be used after 'should'.

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you should call them

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is the correct way to advise someone to make a phone call to someone else. 'Call' is the base form of the verb that should follow 'should'.

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All right, I think you should call them.
If she has family, parents, you should call them.
Perhaps you should call them, otherwise they may think you've disappeared too.
I mean, you should call them back and tell them you were kidding.
They're obviously not coming Fast enough, so maybe you should call them again!

you should called them

This phrase is incorrect. 'Called' is the past tense of 'call', and it should not be used after 'should'.

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You should have called and told them we were coming.
You yourself called them a destructive race.
People called them minor classics of anguish and despair.
I called them and declined their offer.
"Snappamatic Reviews," she called them.
Entertainment Weekly called them "total garbage."
The German trumpets called them back.
"The Green Ink Brigade", Gerald called them.
Her clients were all one-percenters, before they even called them that.
He called them The Order of Moriah.
He called them the fake Navy.
You know I already called them.
Fugue states, the doctor called them.
I called them and they're coming.
Which means somebody in this restaurant called them.
These ones, she called them evil.
Right, after you called them.
No, I called them already.
Says he kept running across these "stick things," as he called them.
I called them, it is all confirmed.

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you should call them vs you should called them