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Is it a normal sentence? | prepositions or infinitive
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to expect #1 (permalink) Wed Jan 25, 2012 14:58 pm   to expect
 

If I want to talk about the past are these 2 sentences correct:

e.g I expected you to be the winner.
I expected you to have been the winner.
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to expect #2 (permalink) Wed Jan 25, 2012 18:30 pm   to expect
 

Yes. The tense you need to use out of those two depends on the greater context.
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